Quotes About Inequality

Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.

There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.

When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.

It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.

Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.