Quotes About Inequality

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

In Hollywood, an Angelina Jolie is paid a fee that is probably at par with her male colleagues, but we can't expect the same here in India. Universally, films have meatier roles for men. Most films are about male protagonists and their histrionics on screen; women are signed up for song sequences and to up the glam quotient.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

Labour politicians ask 'Why do so few children from poor backgrounds go to university?' Well, I'll tell them. It's because they don't go to schools that let their talents and intelligence and energy flow. Give them the right schools, with discipline and order and a love of learning, and they will have a chance of real academic achievement.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.

Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.

The representation of women in hip-hop has long been so flagrantly unkind.

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I'd rather be laughing with them.

I think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can't feel that they have any hero qualities unless there's someone beneath them.

My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.

Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.