Quotes About Inequality

In her experience, light skin and money made almost anything easier. She wanted her grandchildren to come into the world with an advantage.

the capital city had grown in alarming fashion: cardboard walls, tin roofs, people in rags clearly visible along the road from the airport. Since this made a very bad impression on visitors, for a long time the solution was to put up walls to hide them. As one politician said, 'Where there is poverty, hide it.

The General was right. No one dies of hunger here - you reach out your hand and pluck a mango. That's why there is no progress. Cold countries have more advanced civilizations because the climate forces people to work.

Today the nanas have become so emancipated that the lords of their domains prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Peru, whom they can mistreat as badly as they used to their Chilean servant girls.

Había dos naciones compartiendo el mismo espacio, la pequeña nación de la afluencia y las ínfulas cosmopolitas y la gran nación de todos los demás.

Se había alejado de la acción y había acabado encerrado en su mundo académico, lejos de la dura realidad de los pobres en América Latina.

También en esas ocasiones, la niña escribía con asombrosa intuición, que las obras de caridad no podían mitigar la monumental injusticia.

llevaba ahora a Blanca a ver a los pobres, cargada de regalos y consuelos. —Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija —explicaba a Blanca—. Pero no ayuda a los pobres. No necesitan caridad, sino justicia.

Mientras los dueños del poder robaban sin escrúpulos, los ladrones de profesión o de necesidad apenas se atrevían a ejercer su oficio, porque el ojo de la policía estaba en todas partes.

wretchedness of some and the arrogance of

Patriarchy benefits from classifying people; it makes it easier to exert control.

The man of good heart maintained that a moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics (religious people) who faithfully go to mass (church) deny their workers a dignified wage. These words should be engraved on the thousand-peso note, so we never forget them.

When I was a girl in my grandfather's house, the men in the family had money, cars, and freedom to come and go anytime they wanted, as well as the authority to make all decisions, even the smallest ones, such as what would appear on the dinner menu. My mother had none of that; she lived off her father's and older brother's charity. She also had to protect her reputation. How much of that did I perceive? Enough to suffer for it.

he was not in favor of their acquiring any additional learning, for fear they would fill their minds with ideas unsuited to their station and condition.

Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija -explicaba Blanca-. Pero no ayuda a los pobres, No necesitan caridad, sino justicia

Women's creativity is called craft and is sold cheap; when men create, the result is called art and is costly, like Maurizio Cattelan's banana taped to a Miami art gallery wall with a price tag of US$120,000.

Por desgracia el garrote es lo único que funciona en estos países. No estamos en Europa. Aquí lo que se necesita es un gobierno fuerte, un patrón fuerte. Sería muy lindo que fuéramos todos iguales, pero no lo somos.

Why had that woman tried to give me her baby? It was a girl. No one wants a girl! the driver answered.

Se creó un aparente milagro económico a un gran costo social

The idea that everyone was equal was fine as a theoretical slogan, he said, but in practice it was an aberration. We are not equal in the eyes of

This is to assuage our conscience, darling," she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor.

la peor pobreza es la de cuello y corbata, porque hay que disimularla

Las obras de caridad no podían mitigar la monumental injusticia.

Padre Hurtado. Sostenía este hombre de claro corazón que la crisis moral se produce cuando los mismos católicos que viven en la opulencia van a misa mientras niegan a sus trabajadores un salario digno. Estas palabras debieran grabarse en los billetes de mil pesos, para no olvidarlas nunca.