Quotes About Inequality

What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

È nelle pieghe di quelle attività considerate superflue, infatti, che possiamo percepire lo stimolo a pensare un mondo migliore, a coltivare l'utopia di poter attenuare, se non cancellare, le diffuse ingiustizie e le penose disuguaglianze che pesano (o dovrebbero pesare) come un macigno sulle nostre coscienze.

Fakir fukaran?n hayat?n? anlatan zengin yazarlar?m?za gece kulüplerinde içtikleri viskileri zehir oluyor. Zengin tak?m?n?n hayat?n? gözlerimizin önüne sermeye çal??an meteliksiz yazarlar?m?z da asl?nda ?u fakir milleti dü?ündükleri için, küçük meyhanelerinde a??z tad?yla içemiyorlar.

Ve biz onlara diyece?iz ki: Hesapla?ma günü geldi. ?imdiye kadar yaln?z din kitaplar?nda yarg?land?n?z. Biz fakirler, zavall?lar, yar?m yamalaklar, bu kitaplar? okuyup teselli olurken içinizden güldünüz. Ve ç?karlar?n?za bakt?n?z.

Yes, there are some backs on the street which cry for the knife.

qu'il n'y a que les gens malheureux, pour mettre la souffrance des humbles de plain-pied avec la leur… Il y a toujours de l'insolence et de la distance dans la bonté des heureux !…

As a country, we've given up our birthright for even less than bread and pottage. We've given it up for nothing—although I'm sure some people somewhere are richer now.

He led the way past the main house away from the slave cabins and other buildings, away from the small slave children who chased each other and shouted and didn't understand yet that they were slaves.

We human beings seem always to have found it comforting to have someone to look down on—a bottom level of fellow creatures who are very vulnerable, but who can somehow be blamed and punished for all or any troubles. We need this lowest class as much as we need equals to team with and to compete against and superiors to look to for direction and help.

I began writing about power because I had so little.

I saw a woman die in childbirth once," he said. I nodded. "I never saw it, but I kept hearing about it happening. It was pretty common back then, I guess. Poor medical care or none at all." "No, medical care had nothing to do with the case I saw. This woman's master strung her up by her wrists and beat her until the baby came out of her—dropped onto the ground.

That's an old company-town trick—get people into debt, hang on to them, and work them harder. Debt slavery.

All that money wasted on another crazy space trip when so many people here on earth can't afford water, food, or shelter.

Politicians and big corporations get the bread, and we get the circuses.

Comecei a escrever sobre poder porque era algo que eu tinha muito pouco

I walked down the middle of the street looking and listening and trying to avoid potholes and chunks of broken asphalt. There was little other trash. Anything that would burn, people would use as fuel. Anything that could be reused or sold had been gathered. Cory used to comment on that. Poverty, she said, had made the streets cleaner.

I didn't know how bad it would be or when it would come. But everything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn't believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.

I have watched education become more a privilege of

We walk the highways and scrounge and scavenge and ask for work, and all of that reminds people that what's happened to us can happen to them. They don't like to think about stuff like that, so they get mad at us. They make the cops arrest us or run us out of town.

The penalty for being too poor to be worth robbing is a beating, a rape, and/or death.

Turn a few pages and you'll find a white man named J. D. B. DeBow claiming that slavery is good because, among other things, it gives poor whites someone to look down on. That's history. It happened whether it offends you or not.

There are fewer and fewer jobs among us, more of us being born, more kids growing up with nothing to look forward to. One way or another, we'll all be poor some day. The adults say things will get better, but they never have.

They say we have no business wasting time or money in space when there are so many people suffering here on Earth, here in America.