Quotes About Inequality

It was too unfair. You expected unfairness if you breathed, but this went beyond that.

Das Leben ist nicht gerecht, Bill. Wir erzählen unseren Kindern, daß es gerecht ist, aber das ist eine Gemeinheit. Es ist nicht bloß eine Lüge, es ist eine grausame Lüge. Das Leben ist nicht gerecht, ist es nie gewesen und wird es nie sein.‹

The opposition between the men who have and the men who are is immemorial.

When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty.

In 1964 a coalition of activists, technologists, and academics delivered "The Triple Revolution", an open memorandum to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The signatories pointed out that "wealth produced by machines… is still wealth", and used this to argue for more a equitable distribution of global profits.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

A very small percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.

White job applicants who had served jail time for a felony were more likely to receive a callback than were Black applicants with impeccable records.

In Bangladesh, millions survive on pennies a day. With little access to banks, they're forced to pay outrageous interest rates (100% a year or more) whenever they need to access money.

and the wrong one for others, depending on their bank account and their movie lust.

people look down on a woman without education. She has few options. To survive, she is forced to put up with ill-treatment. She must depend on the kindness of strangers, an unsure thing. I do not want that for you

My fault my fault. A refrain so many women the world over have been taught to sing. 'Why do you say that, beti?

People who are hungry don't have the heart to think about others. Sometimes they can't even care for their own family. Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man. I've seen fathers steal food from their own children's lunchboxes. As they scarf down the corn they have only one overpowering desire: to placate, if even for just one moment, that feeling of insufferable need.

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

How I would love to be a British pound. A pound is free to travel to safety, and we are free to watch it go. This is the human triumph. This is called, globalisation. A girl like me gets stopped at immigration, but a pound can leap the turnstiles, and dodge the tackles of those big men with their uniform caps, and jump straight into a waiting airport taxi. Where to, sir? Western Civilisation, my good man, and make it snappy.

Why can't I go to summer camp, too? It's not fair Willow gets to go have fun and I don't.

Humanity increased its degree of control over nature, but at the price of most people becoming subject to control and exploitation by privileged minority groups.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

Did they like being maids & butlers? Before you answer this consider everything you've ever read about English history after Robin Hood and before he Who. Your choices were: serving, being served, being killed by Jack the Ripper. So, the employee class made the best of it and got with the program. It was indoor work, after all. And as a wise man once observed, "You're gonna hafta serve somebody." (Bob Dylan, C. 1497-1580). And it beat mining.

That's the funny thing about The Money. They'll gift each other artifact and libation equal to most people's annual income. But anyone who ain't them's gotta work for it.

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.