Quotes About Inequality

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited.

For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

There are 249 millionaires in Congress. Remember a couple of years ago when this new Congress told us they had the solution to the recession? Apparently, they didn't share it with the rest of us.

Gerçek ?udur ki, s?n?flar var oldukça devlet s?n?flar üstü olamaz; efendilerinin yan?nda yer almak zorundad?r.

S?n?flar var oldukça devlet s?n?flar üstü olamaz.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

For these reasons the Vietnam-era army (unlike the armies that had fought in World War II or Korea) consisted disproportionately of the poor, minority groups, and the working classes. They were getting drafted and killed while others—many of them university students who were loudest against the war—stayed safely at home.92

Many black and poor people, moreover, had become politicized by the civil rights movement and had begun to develop higher expectations from life. Some joined a newly formed National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO).

Garrett County is hardly colder than Detroit -- hardly colder in 2002, for that matter, when I had the conversation, than it had been in 1890, when it had 185 African Americans. The fact that the very next county to the east had more than 1,000 African Americans, while Garrett County had at most one black household, is a dead giveaway. Such abrupt disparities can only result from different racial policies, not from factors such as climate.

Many sundown towns had not a single black household as late as the 2000 census, and some still openly exclude to this day.

Ironically, societies characterized by a complex division of labor are often marked by inequality and support large specialized armies. Precisely these "civilized" societies are likely to resort to savage violence in their attempts to conquer "primitive" societies.22

Students of color do only slightly worse than white students in mathematics. If you'll pardon my grammar, nonwhite students do more worse in English and most worse in history.

Jonathan Kozol is of this school when he writes, "School is in business to produce reliable people."17 Paulo Freire of Brazil puts it this way: "It would be extremely naïve to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically."18 Henry Giroux, Freire's leading disciple

The people shall further be graded according to wealth, and—humorous touch this—the more obviously a man labor, the more stinting shall be his reward; the more he work in the out-of-doors, the thinner his clothing shall be; the more his labor filthy him, the less water shall he have to wash

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Yes, yes, if you please. No reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.

Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

Canciones y proverbios, todo habla de la fragilidad femenina. Pero quizá diga usted que todos han sido escritos por hombres. - Quizá lo diga... Pero, por favor, no ponga ningún ejemplo de libros. Los hombres han tenido todas la ventaja sobre nosotras al contar ellos la historia. La educación de ellos ha sido mucho más completa; la pluma ha estado en sus manos. No permitiré que los libros me prueben nada. (p. 259)

More than 1 billion people do not have access to sufficient water to meet their basic sanitation needs.

Malnutrition and famines are common in some regions, but they result mainly from unequal distribution rather than adequate production, of food.

but through accidents of birth, prejudice or illness were less able to help themselves, it was a harsh society where only the fittest survived.