Quotes About Inequality

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.