Quotes About Inequality

Those who have much are often greedy, those who have little always share.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

We live, deaf to the land beneath us,Ten steps away no one hears our speeches,But where there's so much as half a conversationThe Kremlin's mountaineer will get his mention.

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.

Communism is a hatred of the poor for the rich—not simply an envy.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.

There can be no doubt of this: All America is divided into two classes,- the quality and the equality.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Por cada segundo que pasa sin que aspiremos a democratizar los lugares donde se decide lo importante, aumenta sin cesar el enriquecimiento privado ilegítimo y el sufrimiento gratuito de la gente corriente.

alumbrar la nueva era tiene enfrente, siempre, el freno descomunal de los privilegiados.

Only the rich can afford character, but most of them soon to dispense with it soon enough. They just have the money or the power to buy their way out of trouble before the whispers get too loud, but poor men...poor men are judged without mercy.

The emphasis on individual rights has heightened awareness of social discrimination and gender inequality; in many countries today, there is a remarkable greater acceptance of different sexual orientations. The larger political implications of this revolutionary individualism, however, are much more ambiguous.

It was easy to denounce that American vision of endless space and well-being and leisure as a deception; to accuse it of obscuring the inner cities and drugs and violence, and the ruthless suppression of remote and near enemies. But to people from tormented societies, America was the country whose nation-building traumas seemed to lie in the remote past, and where many individuals could afford to look beyond the struggles for food, shelter and security that still weighed upon people elsewhere.

These extraordinary measures were not about me being treated the same as other people; they were about me being treated worse.

Every war, every crime against humanity among the damned of the Earth is supposed to be somewhat our fault and ought to lead us to confess our guilt, to pay endlessly for being a member of the bloc of wealthy nations.

but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?

They were men, and free. I was a woman, and a slave. And that's a chasm no amount of sentimental chit-chat about shared imprisonment should be allowed to obscure.

People are agitating for the overthrow of the old order and a new deal for America. For there is a palpable sense that the game is rigged against Middle America and for the benefit of insiders who grow rich and fat not by making things or building things, but by manipulating money.

One way to identify a relationship of inequality is to determine whether or not the couple can set mutual goals and discuss them together. In an abusive relationship, the couple does not really plan together. Planning together requires mutuality and equality.

Despite differences of age, sexual orientation, social class, region, and religion, U.S. Black women encounter societal practices that restrict us to inferior housing, neighborhoods, schools, jobs, and public treatment and hide this differential consideration behind an array of common beliefs about Black women's intelligence, work habits, and sexuality. These common challenges in turn result in recurring patterns of experiences for individual group members.

Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.