Quotes About Inequality

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.

Laughter does not please the mighty.

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

It was once upon a time where me, myself as a kid - and I know plenty of people who grew up the same way - couldn't even afford a pair of shoes.

I am concerned about the plight of the working poor... If doctors are not paid for seeing those patients, doctors will not go to rural Alabama because you can't expect a doctor to go to rural Alabama and lose money.

I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have lunches.

Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I took action against the corrupt and the lazy.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.

When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.

How can we expect students to succeed when they're worried about where they'll sleep, what they'll eat, and how they'll connect to the classroom?

This thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification. On one hand, yes, you're cleaning up this area, you're making it more livable for people. But you're not saying anything about the people that live there.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.

I always coached mostly the have-not schools.

Mark Emmert, the head of the NCAA, makes millions. Coaches today are making millions. Who's not making anything? I don't want to hear about they get scholarships. Yeah, they get scholarships all right, they earn those scholarships.

Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody.

David Cameron needs to get his head out of the sand. He and his colleagues need to see what poverty is really like.

There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.

Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.