Quotes About Inequality

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line.

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

Women artists are still treated differently from men.

Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.

Oh, I simply can't think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is

People hear 'East Palo Alto' and they think, 'Oh, you're from Stanford.' They don't understand. It's like 'The Lion King:' You've got Pride Rock, and then you've got where the hyenas are. It ain't too far, but it's a completely different world.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.

There are stark, stark contrasts between myself and Jack Conway.

As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.

One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.