Quotes About Inequality

war, like fortune, doesn't touch all folk with the same hand.

Ya, Kahyangan memang tak adil. Atau bisa adil dalam ketakadilan. Kita bisa mengeluh, mengejek, memaki-maki, memohon, mengelabui, menghujat, berbaik-baik, berteman, bahkan bercinta dengan para dewa, tapi kita telah belajar untuk tidak mengharapkan lebih banyak lagi dari uluran "niat baik" mereka.

Opposing forces close rank, black versus white, Republican versus Democrat, plantation riverbed people versus hill people.

I'm just a guy who was predisposed to be a cartoonist, who happened to make it through all the bullshit that comes with being poor and brown (from an interview in the book Attitude, 2002)

Boys start life on one side of the equation and girls on another side, our father explains. The boys' side has additions and the girls' subtractions. Girls have been unfairly pushed onto the margins where human failings will harm them more. "That," he said, "is human history.

The royal lottery-keeper is both a gambler and a swindler; for in his playing he knows that the stake he lays down is unequal to his opponent's.

Ordinary Negroes hadn't heard of the Negro Renaissance. And if they had, it hadn't raised their wages any.

Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.

My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mother And wished she were in hell, I'm sorry for that evil wish And now i wish her well My old man died in a fine big house My Ma died in a shack. I wonder were i'm going to die, Being neither white nor black?

Good people are not that good. To tell the truth, if I were white, no matter how much I loved Negroes, I doubt that I would submit myself to Jim Crow living conditions just to prove my love." "Neither would I," said Simple. "Then you would not be very good, either." "No," said Simple, "but I would be white.

Who ever said the world was fair?

Commoners' bones may have been dug up again and slung into a charnel house: for royalty, burial was for ever.

Human dignity is something one need not look for in the world of capitalists. V. I. Lenin

Because my father had the equivalent of a few thousand dollars, and their fathers had nothing. Money, my friend. Money bought us our lives. And that is called privilege. We bought our lives, while those who couldn't afford to were slaughtered like animals.

Sometimes when justice is not close at hand, people are quick to tell you that you will simply have to wait -- that until the people standing on your neck feel more comfortable standing elsewhere, you have no choice but to be patient. They talk of this like it shouldn't be all that much of an inconvenience for you. But how do you hand a person back the time that was taken from him?

We plunge ourselves into enormous debt and then take two and three jobs to stay afloat. We uproot our families with unnecessary moves just so we can have a more prestigious house. We grasp and grab and never have enough. And most destructive of all, our flashy cars and sports spectaculars and backyard pools have a way of crowding out much interest in civil rights or inner city poverty or the starved masses of India. Greed has a way of severing the cords of compassion. Richard J. Foster, 1981

Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.

Some who deserve failure do not achieve it," he sniffed. "Some who deserve nothing are given the world.

Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.

He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.

Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.

Bran felt terribly sorry for his sisters, but it was hardly his fault that the world was so determined to make girls suffer a great deal more than boys. He hadn't built the world. It had nothing to do with him.

Rich girls aren't criminals, don't you know? They're just troubled, poor things.

Deplorable situations were becoming commonplace in America these days4, jolting many people from their comfort zones. The rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer, and formerly middle class citizens were plummeting toward third world poverty level. Justice was bought and sold while government corruption reigned supreme. Crime escalated out of control while the CIA's booming cocaine, crack, and heroin industries 5 turned our street corners into a blood bath.