Quotes About Inequality

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of the ZIP code that he or she lives in.

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.