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Quotes About Inequality

If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be 'Mad Men,' treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.
~ Alison Lundergan Grimes
It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.
~ Adam Carolla
Woman is the lesser man.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
~ Ann Beattie
At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.
~ Anna Garlin Spencer
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
~ Archibald MacLeish
[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
~ Ava DuVernay
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
~ Carla Gugino
There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.
~ Carrie Fisher
[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.
~ Catherine Camus
We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.
~ Catherine Mayer
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
~ Charles Dickens
Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check... is wealthy. "Ah, here you go, Shaq. Go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling, bling!"
~ Chris Rock
The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.
~ Christina Stead
It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.
~ Christina Stead
Americans live in a country where African-American young men are twenty-five times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police than their white counterparts.
~ Cornell William Brooks
The white man gets all the best catchphrases!
~ Eddie Murphy
Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.
~ Gene Stratton-Porter
Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.
~ Georg Ebers
If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
~ George Bernard Shaw