Quotes About Inequality

Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?

What a wretched thing it was to be born poor and not to have any one to do anything for you and not to be able to do so very much for yourself!

If you can't be really good at anything, then the only way to be able to prove you are superior is to make someone else inferior. It is this rampaging need in humanity which has, since pre-history, driven a man to stand on the neck of his neighbor, a nation to enslave another, a race to tread on a race. But it is also what men have always done to women.

Jon Tester became a multi-millionaire in the Senate, even bought a Cosmopolitan Castle on Capitol Hill. I don't want a castle in Washington, and I don't think becoming a senator should make you rich enough to buy one.

For me, when I was growing up I was told the police weren't on our side. From being stereotyped because we drive nice cars to being judged for the clothing we wear, I was told I would never be given the benefit of the doubt.

A lot of libertarians and ultra-capitalists like to put out this idea that competition makes for better creativity. But it's just because we don't see all the creativity that's been crushed.

I think that in L.A., one thing that nobody will ever talk about is, for instance, how just one in five kids in L.A. County is white, so when you're looking out there, it's a very brown city.

One thing that people outside Chicago need to understand is that the city is not just one thing. It is one city, but it is huge and sprawling. And historically, it has been one of America's most segregated cities.

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

A woman's whole life is spent making chicken curry while her husband works. Then, any time he likes, he can kick her out.

We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, public benefits, much like their grandparents or great grandparents may have been discriminated against during the Jim Crow era.

We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for it.

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

Globalism is a scheme for impoverishing First World labor and taking power and influence from the hands of the many and putting them in the hands of the few.

Black men with criminal records are the most severely disadvantaged group in the labor market.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market.

I've been building classrooms for children. Computer labs for kids. It's such a huge problem and so many children just aren't given a chance in life.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.