Quotes About Inequality

La guerra che verrà non è la prima. Prima ci sono state altre guerre. Alla fine dell'ultima C'erano vincitori e vinti. Fra i vinti la povera gente Faceva la fame. Fra i vincitori Faceva la fame la povera gente egualmente.

LOS DE ARRIBA se han reunido en una sala. Hombre de la calle: abandona toda esperanza. Los gobiernos firman pactos de no agresión. Hombre pequeño: escribe tu testamento.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

In The Reason for Democracy, published after his death in 1976, Kalman Silvert of New York University provided another pungent description of false patriots: "People who wrap themselves in the flag and proclaim the sanctity of the nation are usually racists, contemptuous of the poor and dedicated to keeping the community of 'ins' small and pure of blood, spirit and mind.

The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

My heart revolts against the spectre of Almighty indifferent to the pain of sentient being. My conscience rebels against the injustice, the cruelty, the inequality that surrounds me on every side.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.

By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

In a situation of unequal power, a subordinate group has to focus on survival. It becomes very important for the subordinates to become highly attuned to the dominants as a way of protecting themselves from them.

I don't think the upper 1 or 0.1 percent were ever tearing their hair out about Trump. They were ecstatic that somebody that right-wing, and that bigoted, came with a built-in fan base -- a cult following, even -- that you could never build from scratch with a Jeb Bush or a Ted Cruz or a Marco Rubio. Behind the scenes, they love this stuff. They think they can get away with so much more.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

Differences in morbidity, mortality, and nutritional status linked to differences in socioeconomic status, caste, class, gender, and geography persist in India.

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.

It is God's own crystal truth that in dealing with women unfortunate enough to be compelled to earn their own living and fortunate enough to have wrested from Fate an opportunity to do so, men of business and affairs treat them with about the same delicate consideration that they show to dogs and horses of the inferior breeds.

If you was white, should be all right,If you was brown, could stick around,But as you's black, whoa brother,Get back, get back, get back.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

Politics are the means by which they who can't or won't steal from those who can and do.

Ostentation is roughly the divide between old and new money.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.