Quotes About Inequality

So many times, football is really unfair.

Does being practical mean we prop up a legal system that's unfair, that bears its weight down on black men and black women, and by extension if you are Hispanic or indigenous or poor? Does being practical mean you don't say to the American people you deserve better than you're getting? That's not the practical we want.

Things are fair and unfair, whichever profession you take. Every profession cannot have a 100% rate of fairness.

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

We, as Canadians, have no hesitation lecturing the rest of the world on what they should be doing, how they shouldn't discriminate, and how they should treat the poor. That same discrimination - unfairness that exists in so many of these countries - has been practised for years in our own country.

Like or loathe Donald J. Trump, you have to give him this: He's done more to shine a spotlight on the loopholes and fundamental unfairness of the tax code than any other American president.

Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

I wish I had a dollar for every pro-choicer who told me that abortion has to be accessible for poor women... as if being poor makes you an unfit mother.

Income inequality and government corruption are both unfortunate realities in the United States.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

Because we always are feeling for justice for all that the reality is, unfortunately, the justice system is skewed, and often people of color do not receive appropriate justice in this country.

Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.

The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.

It's not possible that women can be at par with men.