Quotes About Inequality

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.

O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

The poor always ye have with you.

It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Property is theft.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Sex - the poor man's polo.

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.

Unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

The wealth of a nation consists not in its mass of material things, but in its system. The natural resources of South America are not inferior to those of the United States, but the wealth of the two regions is vastly different. The land of India is far richer than that of Japan, but the comparative wealth of the two nations is reversed.

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

She was not a woman likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang, hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.

The point was, Eve supposed, no matter who you were—sex, race, tax bracket—death leveled it all out.

A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not enough shoes, cars, cigarettes. Too many people too few things. What there is must go into circulation, so that everyone can have a chance to be happy for a day.

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

Mi madre se pasó la vida trabajando. Fregaba los suelos de otros, cocinaba para ellos, lavaba sus platos. Lavaba su ropa sucia. Fregaba sus baños después de que los usaran. Se arrodillaba y limpiaba el retrete. Pero cuando estaba vieja y enferma, la olvidaron. La apartaron de su vista. Cuando murió, la arrojaron al fuego.