Quotes About Inequality

It is everyone's story. We are ashamed of our native language, be it Punjabi or Urdu. If you make mistakes while speaking your native languages, no one will say anything. But if you say one word incorrect in English, people will treat it like a crime.

Women in India experience much worse suffering, humiliation and slavery in all spheres than even the untouchables.

The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.

If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?'

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

For too many, to work means having less income.

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.