Quotes About Inequality

In China, the rich enslaved the poor, and in England and Scotland and all over the world, one person, through his power and wealth and standing, was able to enslave others. Don't torget, mankind has had wars where we sent armies to enslave other countries; history is full of slavery.

I was angry because I see other kids with things that I wanted: they had good parents, they had clothes, they always had food and extra money, and I wasn't one of those kids.

Dark skin is considered less than light skin in the in the minds of many in our community and in the media.

Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.

To call the coronavirus a great equaliser turned out to be the greatest falsification of our time.

No retirement system in the world is as broken as ours.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

Differences in racial outcomes are not the same thing as institutional racism any more than the fact that far more men than women are locked up is evidence of institutional sexism.

It's really difficult for mainstream - let's say, cable outlets - to talk about things like income inequality, wealth inequality when the advertisers that are funding their shows are the same corporations that want to ensure that the same system continues.

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

When you are an outsider, no one is ready to meet you or listen to you. People have even said that there are thousands of Sonu Soods out there, and they don't have time to cater to each one of them.

In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends.

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

I've many times been paid far less than what I should have because being raised very poor, I had a mentality that I was just grateful to be there. I had to overcome that type of thinking.

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

I think the Caribbean has been overlooked because guys don't really have the resources to get out and guys are less fortunate to make it to the U.S. and get scholarships and for people to come down and see them.

Canadians will usually give charity to those in need overseas but will ignore the people in their own backyards. It's infuriating.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

Every member of every tribe was entitled to his vote, but since this had to be delivered in person at the Ovile the practical effect was to ensure that only the wealthiest out-of-towner could afford to travel to Rome to exercise his right. Inevitably, this served to skew the voting in favor of the rich.

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.