Quotes About Inequality

You spend more on fancy coffee than I do on meals. Why can't you help the poor, the sick, the homeless?

His presence and testimony highlighted the unfairness of expecting an indigent defendant to get a fair trial without giving him access to forensic experts. Barney had requested such assistance months earlier, and Judge Jones had declined.

Capps earned over nine million last year and paid a pittance in taxes.

It just don't seem fair." "Who said life is fair?

You're willing to just sit by and push papers around your desk while this guy literally gets away with murder and keeps on killing.

Philip II had come to resent the fact that his wife was eleven years older than he was.

England was so much richer and more powerful than its northern neighbor.

There were regional inequalities within Scotland.

Social self-determination does not and cannot exist in a capitalist society: capital, in all its forms, is the negation of self-determination.

A fascist is anyone who, seeing a man working hard and earning money, says, He's getting more than we are, let's pass

The vast difference between what this country was saying and apparently believing, and what the black man was experiencing, was embittering.

The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. He long ago learned that if he speaks a truth unpleasing to the white, the white will make life miserable for him

Most men don't mind if another woman watches. It's the women who are watching who don't want to be seen.

The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who can walk on their hands.

Quoting Kurt Vonnegut: Free Enterprise is much too hard on the old and the sick and the shy and the poor and the stupid, and on people nobody likes.

Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too broken by years of underpaid labor as a domestic to go out bowling at night. She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless.

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding

I would now, however, more strongly emphasize, and especially as to the United States, the inequality in income and that it is getting worse—that the poor remain poor and the command of income by those in the top income brackets is increasing egregiously. So is the political eloquence and power by which that income is defended. This I did not foresee.

Recurrent descent into insanity is not a wholly attractive feature of capitalism.

Here in briefest form is the modern political dialectic. It is an unequal contest: the rich and the comfortable have influence and money. And they vote. The concerned and the poor have numbers, but many of the poor, alas, do not vote. There is democracy, but in no slight measure it is a democracy of the fortunate.

Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. The poor man has always a precise view of his problem and its remedy: he hasn't enough and needs more.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Since 1980, the salaries of executives in FTSE 100 companies have risen by 4,000% compared to 300% for their employees.