Quotes About Inequality

Boys are beaten for reading poetry, grocers are called 'robbers' for sending in their bills, dogs are fed chicken while the servants are forced to eat laundry starch to stave off hunger, terrified children are put on horses at a remarkably young age, a nanny is dismissed for drunkenness but still given a good reference because to do otherwise 'would have been unkind and unnecessary'. The proper way to conduct oneself in all matters is to employ selective silence: Papa

Oppression is unjustly distributed.

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.

It occurred to me suddenly how much easier it was for the rich to refuse to know anything about us when we weren't dressed as individuals.

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

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Consider, Mighty Creator of all things, the differences between Sindbad's life and mine. Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes, and have hard work to get even enough bad barley bread to keep myself and my family alive, while the lucky Sindbad spends money right and left and lives upon the fat of the land! What has he done that you should give him this pleasant life— what have I done to deserve so hard a fate?

Charat Singh was feeling kind, though he did not relax the grin which symbolized six thousand years of racial and class superiority.

As members of classes, genders, ethnic groups, and nationalities, we will have narrowed our meaning of what it is to be human by means of particularistic interests that explicitly set us against each other.

Do not confuse the word pity with love. The rich pity the poor. If pity is the key to the gates of heaven, then it is impossible to accept this price. No one wants to become a weakling either.

History always discriminates against half-wise men and praises only those who have achieved greatness.

Just as people believe that power often goes to those who don't deserve it, a beautiful girl often marries the ugly man in town.

Like employment, housing is also politicised too.

Poverty is a disease that must be diagnosed and then completely avoided in all societies.

Poverty is a pandemic disease that must be cured, sooner or later.

Poverty is never a choice. And if it's a choice, then people choose it unknowingly.

Poverty seems to be the root of all evil. Whereas the children of rich parents are spoiled daily.

Socialism turns a slave into a king while capitalism insists on keeping more slaves under the feet of the rich. Therefore, it is foolish to pretend to be a capitalist when you don't owe any capital yourself.

The hungry ones are praying and begging for daily bread, while food is thrown daily in the palaces.

The lottery is similar to inheritance. The winner gets more than he deserves, plunging the economy into chaos.

There is no doubt that corruption is the first ingredient of poverty and suffering in any environment.

Those who are blessed with the natural resources wish to keep all the wealth to themselves only.

We currently live in a generation where many people have the desire to know everything, mere knowledge, while success or wealth is only visible in the hands of a few.