Quotes About Inequality

enormous gap existed in the United States between the best medical practice and the average, and an unbridgeable chasm separated the best from the worst.

China is now Asia's least equal society with 1% of the population controlling more than a third of the country's wealth, most of which is tied up in property. Alarmingly, China's property vacancy rate is estimated to be 22%, suggesting that 49m homes are sitting empty and have been bought by wealthy speculators. That equates to around 30% of all apartments sold in the past decade. How long can the bubble continue given such a large number of empty and expensive apartments?

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

We have to face up to systemic racism. We see it in jobs, we see it in education, we see it in housing. But let's be really clear; it's a big part of what we're facing in the criminal justice system.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world's wealth.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice