Quotes About Inequality

Don't it give you the goose pimples when you realize that white people can kill us and get away with it? Just think of it! We are walkin' targets everywhere we go—on the subway, in the street, everywhere.

1952 there were over 700 cases of polio in Detroit. Dr. Bodywork Bob had told me that. I told Rouse; he bogeyed a hole. Polio was hitting families all over town, white and colored, rich and poor, center of the city and suburbs.

La dignidad del trabajo es una palabrería empresarial para mantener a costa de los principios de dignidad humana condiciones no superadas de esclavitud. La dignidad del trabajo es un mito cuando se trabaja por necesidad.

the world is full of young men just like him—unremarkable in every regard, except for the ridiculous privilege with which they were born.

If it wasn't him, it was someone just like him, because the world is full of young men just like him—unremarkable in every regard, except for the ridiculous privilege with which they were born.

She sighs heavily. "Not surprising. It'd be everywhere if they were rich white girls." Goes back to her keyboard. "Anyway … I hope they catch his sorry ass." "Yeah. Me

Americans think their odds of success, and of rising from the bottom to the top, are much higher than they are

the prosperity gap between very rich and very poor in France was less than that between the handful of most affluent grands colons of Algeria and the petit blanc; while between the latter and his Muslim competitor, the differential was, in contrast, extremely slender.

Science is itself one of the modifications of amour-propre, the love of inequality.

People are tagged with other labels that point to the lowest-status group they belong to, as in "woman doctor" or "black writer," but never "white lawyer" or male senator". Any category that lowers our status relative to others' can be used to mark us; to be privileged is to go through life with the relative ease of being unmarked.

subordinate groups are often pitted against one another in ways that draw attention away from the system of privilege that hurts them all.

A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It is also organized around an obsession with control and involves as one of its key aspects the oppression of women.... If men occupy superior positions, it's a short leap to the idea that men must be superior...[and that] whatever men do will tend to be seen as having greater value.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them go about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them going about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

but because in the default of the gender hierarchy, for some reason, the man's need as usual came first.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

pequeño, y pobre, y atrasado, donde no se cumplen las leyes físicas, donde la aritmética es opinable, moldeable como la plastilina, donde se divide entre todos el mérito de unos pocos y la responsabilidad de unos pocos se multiplica por todos para que nadie tenga nunca ningún mérito ni responsabilidad alguna, porque las cosas pasan solas, como por arte de magia o porque no les queda más remedio que pasar.

The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.

Le donne che non hanno il diritto di sognare portano nomi che fanno sognare

Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.

When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s - deregulation, weaker protection for unions, the shareholder value movement, and the subsequent inflation of executive compensation.

The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.