Quotes About Inequality

Ted Kim was sadistically illustrating that she'd only gone to Princeton, she was not of Princeton.

Needless to say, it is a perpetual loop of economic gender cruelty to require women to pay for their physical upkeep and then to punish them financially for not keeping up when they don't have the funds.

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

Luckily, I was not born a white man.1 I was born a socially anxious Indian woman.

Is it terrible to take solace in finding oneself better off than the huddled masses?

Men's slaves, their hearts are greedy, The great do not mingle with their people when they rejoice.

Princes in the workhouse, He who did not sleep on a box owns a bed. See, the man of wealth lies thirsting. He who begged dregs has overflowing bowls. See, those who owned robes are in rags, He who did not weave for himself owns fine linen. See, he who did not build a boat for himself owns ships, Their owner looks at them: they are not his.

Lo, gold, lapis lazuli, silver, and turquoise, Carnelian, amethyst, ibht- stone and Are strung on the necks of female slaves. Noblewomen roam the land. Ladies say, "We want to eat!" Lo, noblewomen, Their bodies suffer in rags, Their hearts shrink from greeting [each other]. Lo, chests of ebony are smashed.

If law is laid waste and order destroyed, no poor man can survive: when he is robbed, justice does not address him.

Poor men have become men of wealth, He who could not afford sandals owns riches.

Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

In every immediate way, the natives had the upper hand. They outnumbered the survivors by more than ten to one. They were healthy and well fed. None suffered burns, head injuries, or gangrene.

Men they had been trained to regard as subhuman were now their representatives in Washington, not to mention their governors, judges, sheriffs, and schoolmasters. In reaction, the region saw the flourishing of domestic terrorist groups like the Red Shirts in South Carolina, the White League in Louisiana, and the White Liners in Mississippi. Violence became part of everyday politics.

He who steals hooks is a thief. He who robs a nation is a nobleman.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of p0verty are fought to map change.

La idea tradicional de que es inevitable que las desigualdades económicas persistan e incluso empeoren hace que todos seamos, en cierto modo, marxistas.

Los economistas han demostrado que es, por ejemplo, lo que ocurre en la emigración: las personas emigran no porque sufran una privación absoluta, sino una privación relativa; no porque sean pobres, sino porque son conscientes de que pueden vivir mejor. Cuanto más contacto tenemos unos con otros, más aspiraciones genera ese contacto.

Working-class and lower-middle-class people across the developed world have lost confidence in their ability to achieve the life that their parents enjoyed during the heyday of the postwar boom.

the world market for cheap labor exceeds even the market for cheap sex.

when people conclude that their economic and social progress is blocked, and they are stuck in a lower rung than the one they expected to occupy in society. Status dissonance is amplified by the sense that rather than coming closer to your rightful place in society, you're falling further and further below your natural spot in the pecking order.

so long as all countries have not one labor market but in practice two—one legal or tolerated, another underground and unregulated—certain kinds of labor such as garment manufacturing, domestic work, and sex will keep producing huge profits for human smugglers and traffickers.

Economists and sociologists have concluded that what drives migration is not absolute deprivation,50 or poverty,

Para dicha de los pobres y malestar de los ricos Hugo insiste, de nuevo, en que va a barrer del mapa a los viejos poderes oligárquicos.

Ustedes recuerdan lo que dijo Jesucristo? Que más fácil será que un camello entre por el ojo de una aguja que un rico entre al Reino de los Cielos. —El auditorio celebra. Él continúa—: Nosotros no queremos ser ricos. ¡Ser rico es malo! Es inhumano, así lo digo, y condeno a los ricos.