Quotes About Inequality

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

The Food Stamp Challenge, which challenges higher-income families to live as if they are on food stamps, estimates that a person on food stamps has a budget of about $1.25 per meal. In other words, a family on food stamps must buy an entire meal per person for less than the cost of an average cup of coffee.

I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our outrage at the top 1 percent is distracting us from the problem that we should really care about: how to create opportunities and ensure a reasonable standard of living for the bottom 20 percent.

The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

The Clintons engage routinely in corrupt practices, mixing their political power with their nonprofit work to make themselves rich, while not standing up for the little guy.

The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes?

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.