Quotes About Inequality

Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

Because in all of the whole human race Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two There's the one staying put in his proper place And the one with his foot in the other one's face

She more than likely came from good enough people. Poor, honest, hard-working folks that never got ahead but did all right as long as they kept their heads down and didn't study too much on what they didn't have.

When poor people are constantly worrying about money, they neglect other areas of their lives. Scarcity of money affects scarcity of time, which in turn affects scarcity of mental bandwidth. All of these things feed on themselves, leading to worse and worse decision making. And although most of us might take a break when life feels overwhelming, the poor cannot. "Poor people can't say, 'I'll take a vacation from being poor,'" Mullainathan explains.

It is estimated that if everyone on the planet adopted a Western lifestyle, we would need five planets to support us. Around 20% of people living in the wealthy Western world consume 86% of the world' s resources. The world' s wealthiest 225 people have combined assets roughly equal to the annual income of the poorest 2. 5 billion people.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.

witness two scenes. In one, an angry, bitter man beats another man to death in an alley in the Gadrobi District. In the other, a man of vast wealth conspires with equally wealthy compatriots to raise yet again the price of grain, making the cost of simple bread so prohibitive that families starve, are led into lives of crime, and die young. Are both acts of violence?

In a country as rich and remarkable as the United States, it is shameful that so many hardworking people have to ration their medicines, skip prescription refills, and make other tough tradeoffs about their care because they cannot afford the medication they need to stay healthy.

I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that's not growing very much.

I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted.

It's not fair that people who work, save, and pay for their cell phones are forced to fund the Lifeline program that pads the pockets of people like Carlos Slim, the foreign billionaire who has repeatedly been named the World's Richest Man.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

As our nation continues to slowly recover from the recession, it is clear some families are doing better than others.

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.

Five days in Nairobi slums changes you.