Quotes About Inequality

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

Even in my dullness I knew I was inferior. Other people had something I lacked—something denied me. In my mental blindness, I had believed it was somehow connected with the ability to read and write, and I was sure that if I could get those skills I would have intelligence too. Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

complain and share certain stories—for instance, the one that Mrs. Wilk eventually confided to my mother about how, yes, she and the other Polish girls of her town, Rzeszów, had been taught to hate the Jews, but they didn't know any better—and also would gossip about the pani, the rich neighbor ladies who did not share their meals with their cleaning ladies; after this time, during which the two women

There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.

It was laid out much like any other town—thoughtlessly, and in haste. Here is where the rich people lived, and here the workers. This is where the white people shopped, and here was the special store for the Chinese, which had everything they could ever want, as long as they didn't want that much.

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

"The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."

As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering.

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you've probably already done something very, very wrong.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth.

The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

There is no natural order. Only rules that one race invents to make the other serve its uses.

Ha, Mr. Betteredge, the day is not far off when the poor will rise against the rich. I pray Heaven they may begin with him. I pray Heaven they may begin with him.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.