Quotes About Inequality

It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a large number of people do not share in these benefits and the result is increasing inequality.

Every capitalist is rich, but every rich is not a capitalist.

When you see your feet with no footwear, also see those with no feet.

A thousand minus one is never a thousand

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

Rising inequality isn't about who has the knowledge; it's about who has the power.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.

Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.