Quotes About Inequality

L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it's simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won't have to hear the screams of the drowning.

They keep us fighting among ourselves like dogs for table scraps so we won't catch them making off with the feast.

they had become the people her parents worked for. But they were better versions. And her parents, hungry as they were, would have expected no less. You couldn't fight the Haves. The only thing you could do was become them to such a degree that they came to you for what they had not.

way. Of profit. Of philosophy. Of a worldview that said rules apply only to the people who aren't in charge of making them.

The Leftist worldview sees society's and the world's great battle as between rich and poor rather than between good and evil. Equality therefore trumps morality. This is what produces the morally confused liberal elites who venerated a Cuban tyranny with its egalitarian society over a free, decent, and prosperous America that has greater inequality.

Left-wing policies don't stop the rich from being rich, they stop the non-rich from getting rich.

The left regards murderers, rapists, thieves and other violent criminals more as victims than as contemptible. Violent criminals do what they do because of poverty, racism and inequality, progressives argue.

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests.

Yoksul insanlar zengin adam?n alt?nlar? için ölür ve bu her zaman da böyle olacak, deÄŸil mi?

But there—poor men mun bleed for the rich man's gold, and always will, eh?

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

Talking about class and identity can be as divisive as talking about race and racism.

It's a travesty that there are people on this planet living on less than a dollar a day.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

Why is it when we see a white guy, we automatically think, 'Let's turn this dude into a star?'

The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

Do your badges everyone tells me. Yeah, but badges wont get you a job. You could have the most educated coach sitting at home, you still have to be given the opportunity. And I know a lot of people arent getting those opportunities. Which is sad.

The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That's something I've understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator.

It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.

Many think that elite athletes like me are taken care of. But that is not true, only a few like Sindhu are looked after well.

I think that the elites have lived too long among themselves.

In 2008/9 26,000 people in the U.K. relied on emergency food aid from a foodbank; which was 26,000 too many.

Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.