Quotes About Inequality

100 days employment in a year is not enough for poor.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education.

I know what it's like to have to put back food at the checkout line because you don't have enough money and those kinds of things.

Arianna Huffington is only rich because of her man entrepreneur husband.

We know COVID-19 hasn't affected communities equally.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

The key to solving problems such as violence, discrimination, inequality, human rights violations, and environmental destruction is to be found not in systems or technology but in recovering empathy.

Debemos enseñar a los curas que amenazan y asustan a sus feligreses con el fuego eterno que en realidad no hay otro infierno que este, el que sufrimos nosotros, con la miseria, los salarios exiguos, humillantes, las condiciones de trabajo y las jornadas agotadoras, con la enfermedad de nuestros hijos y con la falta de comida y medicinas.

En realidad no hay otro infierno que este, el que sufrimos nosotros, con la miseria, los salarios exiguos, humillantes, las condiciones de trabajo y las jornadas agotadoras, con la enfermedad de nuestros hijos y con la falta de comida y medicinas.

No hay libertad con hambre

I knew that people lived badly, remembered the barracks of the Khamovniki brewery, had seen flophouses, all-night cafés, drunkards, cruel and ignorant people, prison. But all that had been from the outside, and in the courtroom I caught a glimpse of people's hearts.

And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present.

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

A condemned poor man, if steals to feed his starving kid, is slammed into prison. Contrast this to a rich man's crime.

Train movement through lockdown has been suspended only to further harass and oppress the poor population.

All things pass, but the poor remain. We are the people of the Apokalis. Tomorrow there will be more of us.

Poverty can make people self-centered

There are two ways to make money in a capitalist, patriarchal setting: 1. Fuck other people over faster and more efficiently than they fuck you over. 2. Whore

In this respect, the concept of "the people" is converted into, say, slaves, workers, wage earners, lesser functional officials, etc., and, as well, breeders of millions of disposable and replaceable "soldiers" who fight and die in whatever wars are designated by their higher-ups.

Some patrons acted from respect or friendship for their clients, others from a sense of noblesse oblige, and yet others because the free people's gratitude could be profitable. Vulnerable black people paid premium prices for goods and services that white men and women bought cheaply. Landlords who rented land to black planters often exacted higher rents from them than they did from white tenants, just as employers who hired free black

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

The Odessan is the polar opposite of the Petrogradian. As a rule, Odessans make a killing in Petrograd.