Quotes About Inequality

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.

I wish I knew why some people suffer so much more than others

Additionally, using the forms of publicity that capitalist culture makes available for collective identifications, some of these sex publics have exposed contradictions in the free market economics of the right, which names nonmarital sex relations as immoral while relations of economic inequality, dangerous workplaces, and disloyalty to employees amount to business as usual, not provoking any ethical questions about the privileges only some citizens enjoy.

He was beginning to think Mr Piper the philosophy teacher was right: man was not born good, he was just out for himself, and when he got the chance he would laugh at those less fortunate, those unlucky ones who kept on flunking French.

What animal would do this?"he said harshly. "No, little one, animals might scratch you, or bite you, or even rip you apart in hunger or fear, but only a man can crush you inside, in your heart, for no other reason than the colour of tour skin.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

They were a motley, dispirited underclass that wanted black people held down in part because they needed someone to look down upon, as most of the white world looked down on them.

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

Asian men could be socially inept and incompetent and ridiculous, like a Long Duk Dong, or at best unthreatening and slightly buffoonish, like a Jackie Chan. They were not allowed to be angry and articulate and powerful. And possibly right, Mr. Richardson thought uneasily.

Somewhere out there, you knew, wealthy people were barricaded in their fortresses, fed and warm, if not happy, but soon you stopped thinking of them. You stopped thinking about other people at all.

If she were a white girl . . . none of this would ever have happened.

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

Naître fille dans ce pays est un crime en soi. Vous êtes coupable parce que pas mâle. Et vous êtes pute parce que fille. Alors autant l'être pour de bon. Une fille peut être vendue moins cher qu'une vache .

La mort d'un pauvre et le crime d'un riche ne font pas de bruit

Stupidity is the prerogative of the wealthy. Pauper's field is crammed with smart guys.

A white husband and father who hired laborers to help him work his farm during the day, attended Odd Fellows meetings on Tuesday evenings, and worshipped at the Baptist church on Sunday enjoyed a wider range of individual rights and privileges than his wife, children, or hired hands did because his standing as husband, father, employer, Odd Fellow, and church member permitted him to do so,

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

Only poor people go to jail.

Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

game of deducing a person's character from that person's appearance is an old pastime with racists and with those who seek an advantage over the poor or the ugly, the disabled, or any underrepresented minority.

Focusing on the dead women enables Americans to ignore the dead men, and ignoring the dead men enables the United States to ignore the failure of its free-trade schemes, which in Juarez are producing poor people and dead people faster than any other product.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.