Quotes About Inequality

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.

However much some people may resent the fact, in nature inequality and not equality seems to be the rule.

Inequality, in other words, is precisely the principle upon which their social life is based and is made possible.

For example, at Wigan Pier, later to be made famous by George Orwell, women formed just 5.5 percent of the work force. Of them, not a single one worked underground.[355]

En una sociedad cuyo principal problema de nutrición es la obesidad, se olvida fácilmente lo horrible que puede ser para el organismo humano la falta de comida y de bebida.

we should be thinking more about the fault-lines and fractures that underlie dominant male discourse.

she was well aware that the further up the career hierarchy she went, the fewer female faces she saw.

and proletarii (those without property – whose contribution to the city was the production of offspring, proles).

Many would have resented the arrogance and disdain, the double standards and the lifestyle of their rich neighbours; lack of zoning in Roman cities may have had its equitable side, but it also meant that the poor constantly had their noses rubbed in the privilege of others. What

To put it another way, the individual rich voter had far greater voting power than his poorer fellow citizens.

cultural anxieties are often a privilege of the rich.

As young Scipio Nasica found to his cost, the success of the rich was a gift bestowed by the poor. The rich had to learn the lesson that they depended on the people as a whole. An

The first qualification for most political offices was wealth on a substantial scale. No one could stand for election without passing a financial test that excluded most citizens; the exact amount needed to qualify is not known, but the implications are that it was set at the very top level of the census hierarchy, the so-called cavalry or equestrian rating. When the people came together to vote, the system of voting was stacked in favour of the wealthy.

It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration.

There was the enormous disparity of wealth between rich and poor, the squalid living conditions for most of the population, and probably for much of the time, even if not starvation, then persistent hunger.

the success of the rich was a gift bestowed by the poor. The rich had to learn the lesson that they depended on the people as a whole.

In South Dakota about 6 percent of the population are Indians, but we account for 43 percent of arrests and 50 percent of all convictions.

Whites break the law too, but it is always the poor and the nonwhites who actually do the time in penitentiaries.

The white man oppresses the half-blood, the half-blood oppresses the full-blood, and everybody takes out their anger, despair, and feeling of helplessness on the women.

The rich kept stuffing their pockets and the poor fell deeper in debt.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law