Quotes About Inequality

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich manís table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.