Quotes About Inequality

Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Guys die down here on a regular basis-that's the reality. They die here for a nickel. They are killed for a piece of change or because somebody looks at somebody wrong.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death

The only real equality is in the cemetery

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

We live in a strange world where the poor walk miles to get food, and the rich walk miles to digest food.