Quotes About Inequality

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

A poor man is a living dead one.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

A person's zip code shouldn't decide their destiny.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

I'm so tired of making excuses for old white men.

I am a limousine liberal.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.