Quotes About Inequality

All told, in the colonial period, Europeans increased their share of global GDP from 20 to 60 per cent, Hickel points out. 'Europe didn't develop the colonies. The colonies developed Europe.' The Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle sums it up: 'We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them.

It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up.

Black exists only because America is White.

life ain't fair. It's always slightly one sided

The lifetime likelihood of imprisonment for white women is 1 in 118; for black women, it's 1 in 19.

In Los Angeles from 1940 to 1945, the white population rose less than 20 percent, while the black population increased nearly 110 percent. Yet only 5 percent of the city's residential areas allowed blacks.

The vast southern city they lived in was rich in land, poor in everything else—no bodies of water, no drainage, no hills, no topographical variety of any sort, no public transportation or even the awareness of the lack of such a thing.

Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

I sing about social issues, not the boy-girl stuff.

In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.

Social justice and economics are both issues to me.

A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality.

Social networks, professional networks, offices, and schools help keep high earners in place.

At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its attendant culture of poverty.

Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

It's built into the fabric of this country, you know - oppressing black people socially, politically and economically. They all kind of go hand in hand.