Quotes About Inequality

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available

Some have meat, and cannot eat, And some cannot eat that want it; But we have meat, and we can eat - And let the Lord be thanked.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

All men are created Equal. Some just have more Splenda.

It doesn't matter if you're black or white... the only color that really matters is green.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it. And they have to work a lot longer and harder than more privileged people do.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

La verdadera división de las clases sociales habría que hacerla teniendo en cuenta la hora en que cada uno se tira de la cama

Si cuarenta mil niños sucumben diariamente en el purgatorio del hambre y de la sed si la tortura de los pobres cuerpos envilece una a una a las almas y si el poder se ufana de sus cuarentenas o si los pobres de solemnidad son cada vez menos solemnes y más pobres ya es bastante grave que un solo hombre o una sola mujer contemplen distraídos el horizonte neutro pero en cambio es atroz sencillamente atroz si es la humanidad la que se encoge de hombros.

Siempre hay alguien que está peor, como concluía Esopo. Y hasta peorísimo, como concluyo yo.

We must make the American people hear our Tale of Two Cities. We must convince them that we don't have to settle for two cities, that we can have one city, indivisible, shining for all of its people.

At the moment, world hunger and starvation have everything to do with politics. Political conflicts, insufficient responses to natural disasters, corrupt political institutions, and inequalities in income and education constitute what public health practitioners call the 'root' causes of hunger and malnutrition.

The Ritz is a place where two hundred poor devils work themselves to death in order that two hundred lucky devils can live in luxury.

Even before the Civil War, outsiders from Catholic Ireland and from Asia had been made to feel unwelcome in "the land of the free." And this was to say nothing of the black population, whose bondage remained a gross contradiction to the lofty sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.

He wants to think of himself as pious, honorable, churchgoing, civic-minded. The bent-down Mexican can drive the farmer to madness, to drink, to whoring, to collecting Ferraris, to the roulette table to gamble it all away. That's why the labor contractor came into existence. It's not as if the farmer can't

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.

America's food system is broken.

raising the average income tax for the top income percentile to 43.5 percent from 22.4 percent, the level of 2007, would raise revenue by 3 percent of GDP, which is enough to close the US structural deficit while still leaving very high earners with more after-tax income than they would have had under Nixon.

a new study by James Henry of the Tax Justice Network estimates that there is as much as 32 trillion dollars, which is over twice the entire US national debt, hidden away offshore not paying taxes, which makes for a very tempting target indeed.

Congress routinely exempted itself from the laws it imposed on the citizens, much as the ruling parties in Russia and China do. Consequently, the five hundred thirty-five members of Congress could freely and legally trade stocks on inside information whereas the other three hundred million Americans could not. Frank disagreed with the law, but it was still the law.