Quotes About Inequality

Comedy is great in that it's accessible to someone like me, from a low socioeconomic background, struggling in life. The gatekeepers are a lot stronger in other art forms.

Political grandstanding might make for great soundbites for the evening news, but it will do nothing to help the people that go to work every day knowing that they're one health emergency away from bankruptcy. It will do nothing to help the hospitals struggling to keep their doors open under the crushing cost of uncompensated care.

It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just because of where they are born or where they were brought up.

Access to equal opportunity should not be constrained by zip-code.

Indeed the Obamas, the Clintons, and many other elites who oppose school choice and make it harder for charter schools to operate, send their own children to private institutions that cost more than many Hispanic families make in a year.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

I grew up in the Middle East, and I worry that AI increases the socioeconomic divide as opposed to closing the gap.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York, for example: they'd give Negroes little five-cent jobs here and there - and they thought they had something. And the same in Chicago and any of the metropolitan areas.

I am a firm believer that an oppressed society gives birth to crime.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

It is Cameron's cabinet of millionaires who are the real spongers given free rein to live out their Thatcherite fantasies at the expense of ordinary, decent communities throughout these islands.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

It's not just about showbusiness - everywhere you go people are discriminated against. And if by having an organised voice against inequality and a lack of diversity we might be able to push that down - how brilliant would it be?

Latin America's economies are organized in a way that concentrates wealth in a few hands but then leaves it untaxed, depriving governments of the resources needed to invest in their citizens' human capital.

My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.

Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

We always keep saying, 'We're the best, we're the best.' Other countries offer healthcare for their people. We don't, so how are we the best there? We've got poverty all over the place, and it's the haves and the have-nots, so how are we the best there?