Quotes About Inequality

The English upper classes were regular churchgoers but they allowed children to work for sixteen hours a day in mines and factories. They insisted their wives and daughters were too delicate for work, yet their twelve-year-old maids worked eighty and more hours each week. It was a world that started a revolution

energized and emboldened delegates of the Third Estate, the "99 percent"—in reality, closer to 96 percent—of the French population who paid the bulk of the taxes

Life isn't always fair . . . but it's sure fairer than death!

You can sell a woman? In cities, it's done all the time, all the time. It's like selling meat.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

If Australia had large and growing gaps between rich and poor, if minorities were persecuted, if we were struggling to meet an existential challenge, there'd be every reason to want fundamental change.

We looked each other up and down, checking out how the other looked. She won that battle. Her tailored suit was well made, her dark silk stocking tops visible just beneath her too-short skirt. Her make-up was immaculate: bright red lips and highlighted eyes stood out against her smooth, almost imperceptible foundation. And there I stood in my frayed grey trousers, my leaking black brogues and my gaudy military jacket.

By the end of his sixteen-course meal in Buckingham Palace, Ramsay McDonald discovered he had changed his mind about the workers owning the means of production. From now on, he felt it better that the Dukes and Duchesses should continue to own the means of production. The workers would just have to make do with what was left over.

He was well aware that Ruben was earning good money, a white man's wage, at the mine. It was a widely known fact that upset some folk in town.

Odette never forgot her father's words: Them whitefellas, they can never touch the stars, no matter how clever they think they are.

Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white?

It seems that the more privileged in a society you are, the more convoluted, devious and determined your efforts became in the evasion of putting a penny back into it.

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

If it is to be taken seriously again, the Left must find its voice. There is much to be angry about: growing inequalities of wealth and opportunity; injustices of class and caste; economic exploitation at home and abroad; corruption and money and privilege occluding the arteries of democracy.

At eight dollars a month, the average Cuban would have to save his or her entire salary for a hundred years to buy a car. Since

One young woman was convinced it's part of the plan: by keeping everyone poor no one has time to organize to topple the system; they have to devote all their time and energy to the pursuit of the next meal.

I suppose my biggest frustration is that we as white people come into a culture and demand that the natives do things our way. I want to see their lives bettered as much as anyone, but who says we have somehow arrived at the perfect way to live? Especially for specific areas of the world?

Why do the babies starve When there's enough food to feed the world Why when there're so many of us Are there people still alone

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?

A 2018 study at MIT found that fully three-quarters of Uber drivers earned less than the minimum hourly wage in the states where they were driving. Almost a third of them lost money in the deal. In effect, they were paying Uber to drive. It was a pretty good deal for Uber. The company's thirty-nine-year-old founder had a personal net worth of $5 billion.

They got money for wars but can't feed the poor.