Quotes About Inequality

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

The less money you have the more likely you are to live close to polluted roads. Most of us cannot choose to move further away from a main road or add another 40 minutes to our commute so that we can live in a quiet, clean, leafy street.

I don't want to sit there and compare to things I've gone through to what the Black player, the African-American player, goes through.

If you look at the NBA compared to the WNBA we make half of one per cent of what the men are allowed to make.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

If you're born a woman, you have a pre-existing condition.

A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

People would congratulate Dick for my movies. It bothered me for a long, long time.

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

I live in Loudoun County, and the counties surrounding Washington, D.C., have the highest per-capita income in the country. Not because they create wealth, but because they suck wealth from the rest of the country, and that system needs to be shaken up.

A lot of our sources for income-inequality measures come from household surveys in which people report how much they earned in the last year, how much income they have, and so on. Those are not as well funded as they should be. We need to have those numbers.

Looting speaks to a lack of economic opportunities - frankly, we all would loot, too, if our families' continued survival depended on it.

I don't think capitalism can survive.

Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.

I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.

People who live in North Korea, they die for food, but living in the free world, the cat even eats expensive sushi.

Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and sustain.

Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.