Quotes About Inequality

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets...

All around us, insurance companies with patriotic names are housed in gigantic towers of white plaster. Here prestigious law firms perform their business for rich people who live next to jaded movie stars

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Oh,great.It's like we're being bussed in from the fucking projects, Aphrodite and I'm hoping for urban renewal, Aphrodite grumbled.

Katrina opened a window that allowed us to peer into the real America, but as soon as the disruptive event was over, that window closed, and the country's consciousness went back to its usual state of ignoring the fact that black people, especially low-income black people, are daily denied democracy and equality in this country.

I wonder the food didn't turn to ashes in our mouths! Eggs! Muffins! Sardines! All wrung from the bleeding lips of the starving poor! Oh, I say! What a beastly idea!... Jeeves came in to clear away, and found me sitting among the ruins. It was all very well for Comrade Butt to knock the food, but he had pretty well finished the ham; and if you had shoved the remainder of the jam into the bleeding lips of the starving poor it would hardly have made them sticky.

Osbert Mulliner was simply unequal to the task of tackling cavemen.

It's a hell for the poor, in New York. An iron, grinding city. It frightens you. It's so big and hard and cruel. It takes the fight out of you.

It just showed once again that half the world doesn't know how the other three quarters live

What it all boils down to, if you follow me, is that certain blokes — me, for example — have got much too much of the ready, while certain other blokes — the martyred proletariat, for instance — haven't got enough. This makes it fairly foul for the m.p., if you see what I mean.

It was funny how we thought education to be the great gilded key which would solve all problems, eliminate all poverty and disease, eradicate differences between social classes, and bring the children of okra-planters up to par with the children of emperors.

Yet all around me, in the grinning faces of my students, I could see a crime, so ugly that it could be interpreted as a condemnation of an entire society, a nation be damned, a history of wickedness—these children before me did not have a goddam chance of sharing in the incredible wealth and affluence of the country that claimed them, a country that failed them, a country that needed but did not deserve deliverance.

He even got an old moral lesson hammered home anew: the poor go to gaol for the same crimes with which the rich aren't even charged.

The shame of it—the cost of leisure being someone else's hard labor and broken body.

The desperate boredom of the wealthy, that he often spoke of to Anne. It tended to destroy rather than create. And it could lead to crime as easily as privation.

A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in the South.

Unto those who have,it shall,uncannily, be given.Unto those who have not,it shall,uncannily,be taken away.

There it is. That is the source of women's inequality in the Middle East, the Western world, and every country infected with biblical belief. In the New Testament, Paul (or someone pretending to be Paul) pounces on this pretext for patriarchy:

Suntem noi învechiÈ›i? Sunt oamenii aceÈ™tia niÈ™te dinozauri? Sau eu? Mai are lumea cu adev?rat nevoie de un glas care s? ia partea celor s?raci, slabi È™i oprimaÈ›i ori a copiilor înc? nen?scuÈ›i? Avem într-adev?r nevoie de suflete ca acestea care, deÈ™i imperfecte, îÈ™i petrec întreaga via?? implorându-ne pe fiecare dintre noi s? nu ne pierdem jaloanele de moralitate È™i s? nu ne r?t?cim?

You grew up poor, honey. Poor people don't have good luck.

You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.

David cannot recall being hugged, kissed, or told he was loved by his parents. The only physical comfort he had was from "Mammy," an African-American housekeeper who recognized David's needs and provided solace. On Saturdays she'd take him to a movie, where she was allowed to sit with him in the whites' section. He is convinced that, "If I hadn't had Mammy, I would have been in much worse shape.

You might already be able to tell that I was born with a silver spoon up my ass. I offer no apologies.