Quotes About Inequality

My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?

I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

Separate but equal does not work.

In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.

In general, we as women, but also Latinas, we're always kind of serving other characters.

Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.

Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House.

There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.

There are too many who have not shared in the benefits of this economy.

Excessive pay and rewards for failure are bad for shareholders, the economy and society.

If the leaders of backward castes had done something for the community, then there would have been no need for the BSP. They didn't, so we exist.

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.

There are millions out there who aren't getting an even break. They're being done down.

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Such hysteria was fomented, Wright noted, by appeals to poor whites for whom color was everything since they had nothing else.

Clive's point was that the criminal justice system is supposed to repair harm, but most prisoners—young, black—have been incarcerated for acts far less emotionally damaging than the injuries we noncriminals perpetrate upon one another all the time—bad husbands, bad wives, ruthless bosses, bullies, bankers.

How you feed your family is not how we feed our family. For real. We're not out here just for the fun and just for the show-and-tell. This is real life." I am finding myself ostentatiously nodding at everything the crack dealers are saying, I suppose in the hope that if the shooting starts they'll remember my nods and make the effort to shoot around me.

It is a frightening and huge thought," I said, "that the ninety-nine percent of us wandering around down here are having our lives pushed and pulled around by that psychopathic fraction up there." "It

A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person.

In whose delusional mind is democracy made better by letting wealthier people control more of it?

People ask, "Why is there poverty in the world?" It's a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil.