Quotes About Inequality

...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

A developed country isn't a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.

Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

João Evangelista estava farto de subdesenvolvimento.

Approximately 60 per cent of the agricultural population was deemed to be too poor to pay taxes.

This would be entirely consistent with a reformation that was less about the assertion of faith and principle than about the redistribution of power and wealth.

Perhaps if I had been able to put things in plain language, it might have been plain that things between us were so damnably unequal, that I loved her as I would never love anyone else and that she loved me as a young woman might love a devoted brother, a trusted bodyguard, or a horse that never stumbles, never shies, but takes all fences willingly, and carries her safely across.

In human affairs, the distance between the leaders and the average is a constant.

it was "decidedly instructive" to contemplate "the ease with which one-half of the population of the country were suddenly deprived of the right of speech, the right to read, and one might almost say the right to think.

the black elite here swan round in squadrons of the latest luxury SUVs, each of which is worth ten times this eccentric old thing.

see his greatgrandchildren bring him gourds of beer before he died. But life expectancy dropped to fifty, and now it has collapsed, all the way down to thirty-three. It is hard to comprehend. At thirty-three, just as people should be in their prime, they suddenly sicken and die. And the managers of the mines and the factories and the farms have begun training three people to fill every job, because they know two will not live to do the work. I can

Each angel is inferior or superior to every other angel. From the fact that angels are pure spirits it logically follows that they are unequal.

There is no equality among angels

Capital requires the separation of the worker from the means of production and subsistence

In my view the greatest evil in the world today is ever-increasing power and wealth in ever-fewer hands," says Visa founder Dee Hock.

Gentrification, at its deepest level, is really about reorienting the purpose of cities away from being spaces that provide for the poor and middle classes and toward being spaces that generate capital for the rich.

Though the governments of Sweden, Hong Kong, and Germany are by no means anticapitalist, they have accepted a truth that few in the United States are willing to grapple with: unregulated capitalism cannot provide a complete solution to the housing question.

To fight gentrification is to fight American thinking.

According to Waggoner, the trouble is that complicated laws enrich those who make the laws while making the rest of society poorer.