Quotes About Inequality

Al fin y al cabo, ¿qué clase de ciencia es ésa, capaz de poner un hombre en la luna pero incapaz de poner un pedazo de pan en la mesa de cada ser humano?

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

what sort of technology is this that can send a man to the moon but can't put a piece of bread on every human being's table?" "Perhaps the problem doesn't lie in the technology, but in those who decide how to make use of it," I suggested.

Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.

Del resto, che razza di scienza è quella che porta un uomo sulla Luna, ma non è in grado di garantire un pezzo di pane a tutti gli essere umani?

El modo más eficaz de hacer inofensivos a los pobres es enseñarles a querer imitar a los ricos.

los peores misóginos siempre son mujeres.

Habrá advertido que no tenemos electricidad, Óscar. Lo cierto es que no creemos demasiado en los adelantos de la ciencia moderna. Al fin y al cabo, ¿qué clase de ciencia es esa, capaz de poner un hombre en la Luna pero incapaz de poner un pedazo de pan en la mesa de cada ser humano? —A lo mejor el problema no está en la ciencia, sino en quiénes deciden cómo emplearla —sugerí.

Il sistema più efficace per rendere inoffensivi i poveri è insegnare loro a imitare i ricchi.»

Le moyen le plus efficace de rendre les pauvres inoffensifs est de leur apprendre à vouloir imiter les riches.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds the—

The main pillar of every organised religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group.

Our ability to communicate our own feelings, and to pick up the feelings of others and thus to heal fractures in connection, threatens the structures of hierarchy. Feelings of empathy and tender compassion for another's suffering or humanity make it difficult to maintain or justify inequality.

We all of us somehow caught. We born this way or that way and we don't know why. But we caught any how. I was born Berenice. You Born Franky. John Henry born John Henry. And maybe we wants to widen and bust free. But no matter what we do we still caught. Me is me and you is you and he is he. We each one of us somehow caught all by ourself. I'm caught worse than you is. Because I'm Black, because I'm colored.

Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend.

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle—the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars—and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage.

There is an old Russian saying: When fingernails are being pulled out in Moscow, fingers are being chopped off in the provinces. That saying one can take at full value.

questions which none seemed able to answer :How is it that white folks have everything and we have nothing? Slavery-how and why did we become their slaves in the first place? White children go to fine brick, stone and marble schools nine months a year while we go to a ramshackle old barn-like building only five-and-ahalf months, then to the cotton fields. Why?

Dixie people wouldn't have listened to a black woman

The world does not lack the financial resources to feed, educate and clothe its inhabitants. Rather, it lacks leaders committed to addressing the problems of the impoverished.

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.