Quotes About Inequality

Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.

Nepotism has always existed in Bollywood.

Nepotism exists everywhere.

Since 1980, Republican shredding of the social safety net has disproportionately hit women, particularly women of colour.

The cavemen are still in charge at the networks. They're all white males, and you can't get away from that.

Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then as an inevitable one. But the civil-rights movement, along with independence movements around the world, changed that.

If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

There's a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it's shameful. That's really disturbing to me.

If Nora Roberts were a man, she'd be on the cover of big business magazines as the next Charles Dickens.

There is a lot of discrimination between artistes from Kerala and from other states. Artistes from other states are paid more here. Once I told the ad guy that you won't be able to afford me next time. After that, I have neither done any ads nor has anyone approached me.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

I can't talk about the education of black children if I ignored two of my nieces who were a couple of grade levels behind. I believe that charity begins at home, and I take seriously the role of a godfather to fill the gap when the parents aren't doing their job.

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.

We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

People complain about the rich-and-poor divide. It's crazy, no doubt about it. But what gets me is that today, a billionaire or head of state on their smartphone has the same direct access to information as a homeless person has on a smartphone - or a person in Bangladesh or Papua New Guinea.

Whether it's in health and education, or the quality of local infrastructure, there's no doubt that a chasm exists between various parts of the U.K.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.

When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then it makes a mockery of 'one man, one vote.'

Both suspect the white poor. The right regard them as scroungers, who steal the money of the middle classes, either by breaking into their homes or by taking their taxes in benefit cheques. The left regard them as sexist and racist homophobes.

Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.