Quotes About Inequality

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.