Quotes About Inequality

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

and subordinate groups are defined along ethnic and/or racial lines, and where the relationship is established and maintained to serve the interests

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain those at the bottom

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), who thought that the French Revolution was the dividing line between the past and a 'glorious future', believed there were three outstanding issues in history – the destruction of inequality between nations, the progress of equality within one and the same nation, and the perfecting of mankind.

En 1972, en el momento culminante de la revolución, Chile era el segundo país más igual de Sudamérica. Tres décadas después, era el segundo país más desigual en la región.

En este país, los que intentan triunfar sin enchufes ni contactos son asesinos en potencia

The humble suffer when the mighty disagree.

Part of the American dream, for example, is to deny that there are class lines drawn through the middle of American society. Each year, however, the widening gap between the 1 percent and the 99 percent turns that persistent American dream into more of a myth. Particularly instructive in this regard is the famous boast by Warren Buffett (quoted by the Marxist theorist Joerg Rieger) that "there is such a thing as class warfare and that his class is winning it."1

condemning a war that, due to college draft deferments, was being fought largely by soldiers drawn from the working class, with blacks a proportionately high percentage.

working at reduced pay, with marginal perks and nonexistent health coverage.

One reason the jobs men hold pay more is because they are more hazardous … Just as the 'glass ceiling' describes the invisible barrier that keeps women out of jobs with the most pay, the 'glass cellar' describes the invisible barrier that keeps men in jobs with the most hazards. – Warren Farrell

It's material deprivation that starts all this off." "They've got dishwashers, Miranda," Billa said. "They're not examples of material deprivation.

The court is resplendent; Yet the fields are overgrown. The granaries are empty; Yet some wear elegant clothes; Fine swords dangle at their sides; They are stuffed with food and drink; And possess wealth in gross abundance. This is known as taking pride in robbery. Far is this from the Way!

The sole equality on earth is death.

The poor were downtrodden. The press told lies. Truth existed nowhere. Everyone was motivated by money.

To be nobly bornIs now a crime.

Whereas status is essentially the product of a social system, class is the product of the economic.8 Class grew out of industrialization and the

The United States has experienced analogous problems of concentration but has a much larger nonwhite population, African Americans

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.

It is shocking, but true, that in today's America, "Justice" is a purchasable commodity.