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Quotes About Inequality

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
~ William Beveridge
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
~ Henry George
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.
~ Rutvik Oza
Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
It's Unfair to be fair, For Life is unfair
~ Farley Maglaya
Ostracism is just another form of racism!
~ Mary-Ellen Peters
All POOR wish to become RICH, BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR.
~ shaikh mustafa
The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If we agree that God did not create poverty, then in my opinion, poverty came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.
~ Q.M. Sidd
all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay
~ Jim Carroll, Void of Course
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
~ E.M. Forster
My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.
~ Vladimir Mayakovsky
Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.
~ Frank Zappa
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
~ Warren Buffett
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
~ Winston Churchill
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
~ Thomas Sowell
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
~ Oscar Levant
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.
~ Bob Dylan
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.
~ Bryan Stevenson
It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.
~ Lightnin' Hopkins