Quotes About Inequality

ze was zijn meisje." Het lijkt een kort zinnetje maar deze heeft wel betekenis, doorheen het verhaal wordt Snow verliefd op Lucy. Dit is eigenlijk niet toegelaten omdat Lucy behoort tot de arme districten en Snow behoort tot de rijkere klasse, ondanks de vele meningen van anderen toont Snow wel aan dat hij van Lucy houdt door haar zijn meisje te noemen.

Many are still out on the street, trying to find shelter for the night. Those who live in the choice apartments of the inner city have not flung open their doors to house the displaced. On the contrary, most of them bolted their locks, drew their shutters, and pretended to be out.

District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter.

it's hard not to resent those who don't have to sign up for tesserae.

District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety,

District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment?

Well, you already knew that life isn't fair, right?" he said. "I guess death isn't either.

a social deformity perhaps more hideous than the evil rich man: the evil poor.

It isn't fair, the way some of us have gotten so screwed by life.

Just as inequality is necessary for creation itself, so the struggle to limit it is also necessary. If there were no struggle to become free and get back to God, there would be no creation either. It is the difference between these two forces that determines the nature of the motives of men. There will always be these motives to work, some tending towards bondage and others towards freedom. This

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

When you have your own people fleeing their homes it's not because they found a job somewhere else... then you have something to fix in your country.

In Moscow, if you have money, you're king. If you don't - sorry, man, get lost. I mean, it's like this everywhere. But in Moscow, it's much more hard-core.

I'm sorry if you're partly black you're partly black. You're not fully black.

I've been locked up for not having insurance, only to be released. I mean, this sort of thing is just par for the course when you're Black or brown in America.

Women didn't go to school when they were young because parents preferred to send their brothers. The women couldn't access loans in their own right because the banks sought the approval of a male dependent.

Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.