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Quotes About Inequality

Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Who says that money don't matter?If you are Rich all the world will know about you, if you are poor no one give a crap about what it's happening to you!"Life It's Short, enjoy this moment.
~ Ebelsain Villegas
Money is the poor people's credit card.
~ Marshall McLuhan
If the rich could hire other people to die for them the poor would make a wonderful living.
~ Jewish proverb
The rich aren't like us they pay less taxes.
~ Peter De Vries
Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.
~ Matthew Desmond
It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
~ Bashar al-Assad
Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
~ Samuel Gompers
We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.
~ Evo Morales
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
~ Mother Teresa
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Poverty is the mother of all revolutions
~ Motsoko Pheko
Poverty is the mother of crime.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
~ Ella Reeve Bloor
All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.
~ Suzanne Collins
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
~ Paul Whiteman
A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.
~ Marc Bolan
The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.
~ Michelle Alexander
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.
~ Pope Pius XI