Quotes About Inequality

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Only poor men get hanged.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

Nearly every black man faces an unacceptable level of violence in this society. I'm not different. Money can shield you; it can protect you. But it doesn't make you white.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.