Quotes About Inequality

So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience.

When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.

Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.

You can give poor people this royal wedding to watch and make them feel good about themselves, or you can give them something useful like, I don't know... a toaster.

Since the day Brahma created the world to this day, no one's ever been able to satisfy a wedding guest. They always find some opportunity or other to find fault and criticise. One who can't even afford a dry piece of bread at home becomes a lord at the wedding party.

Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

European officials thought that austerity was part of what they called their 'convergence policies,' of trying to bring countries together. Instead, it actually made things worse. There's more inequality within countries and more disparity across countries.

Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.

As a black millennial, I remember with horrid detail how Democratic policies ravaged my community and destroyed my family.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

The rich did well under Obama's policies; it was the working class that got creamed. This was because the economy just wouldn't grow as it usually does.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

Just because I'm the top-grossing actress of all time does not mean I'm the highest paid. I've had to fight for everything that I have. It's such a fickle and political industry.

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

I know what it's like to lose your home. I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to lose a family member because of a lack of health care. So all of these things aren't just political issues for me. All of these things are personal to me.

We need to take back control of our political process. We know so much more about what Brexit will mean, and the health implications, especially for those who are already in a disadvantaged position.

Year after year, politicians have drafted huge piles of legislation on the assumption that most people are not good. And we know the consequences of that policy: inequality, loneliness and mistrust.

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... it's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians - by America in general.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.