Quotes About Inequality

Our schools, like so many parts of our infrastructure, are crumbling across the country. Healing our schools can and should be central to our fight to achieve environmental, racial and economic justice.

The ultimate credo of capitalism is to exploit people. It's not like this is just an incidental problem; it's inherent in the system.

As a social anarchist, I believe that capitalism itself is an inherently exploitative hierarchical situation - you do have a boss, you do have somebody in charge.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

The world is an enormous injustice.

Injustice drives me crazy!

There is so much inequality and injustice in America, and COVID-19 has exposed that even more. We have to really understand that this is a wake up call; this is a time of action.

There is so much injustice in the world. Poverty and war.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what their parents do, rather than their innate talent and ambition.

Too many of our children are being left behind, especially in our inner city schools.

As kids, we all wanted a bike. But a lot of people don't have that opportunity, especially in the inner city.

I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I met men whose lawyers had never looked into their backgrounds.

Any time that when you're rich and guilty, you're treated better than if you're poor and innocent, something has to change.

Jobs cannot be created if innovation is restricted to large corporates.

Violence, poverty and health disparities have many inputs.

We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.

I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

We are in an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities. In that context, we need to have new mechanisms for income distribution which give people a sense of security.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why particular individuals have low levels of serotonin. This requires a social and political explanation.