Quotes About Inequity

Inequality is partly a marker of success.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

working at reduced pay, with marginal perks and nonexistent health coverage.

The sole equality on earth is death.

On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.

Que culpa eles têm? Roubam para comer porque todos estes ricos que têm para botar fora, para dar para as igrejas, não se lembram que existem crianças com fome.

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

Our partnership with Dick's Sports Matter program aligns perfectly with our mission to address inequity in schools nationwide.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

we have a system that has been working overtime to move money from the bottom and middle to the top, but the system is so inefficient that the gains to the top are far less than the losses to the middle and bottom.

over the last three decades those with low wages (in the bottom 90 percent) have seen a growth of only around 15 percent in their wages, while those in the top 1 percent have seen an increase of almost 150 percent and the top 0.1 percent of more than 300 percent.27 Meanwhile

In a world of globalization, creating market value had become entirely separated from creating employment. There was no reason to believe that giving more money to America's wealthy would lead to more investment in the United States:

The only one who lived with the chaplain in his clearing in the woods was Corporal Whitcomb, his assistant. Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chaplain's job much better than the chaplain was doing it and viewed himself, therefore, as an underprivileged victim of social inequity.

So in Psalm 73, when life is inequitable, the speaker is aware of a skewed relationship in which one is less than human: When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you. (Ps. 73:21-22; cf. 102:7-8)49

Two men, neither of whom had a criminal record, were convicted for cashing counterfeit checks in the amounts of $58.40 and $35.20, respectively. The first man was sentenced to fifteen years, the second to 30 days.

This very subject—the inequity of offense that right-thinking people take around differing hate words—came up when a friend of mine, a man who very much would be thought of as a progressive, questioned me about this central premise of the film.

This very subject—the inequity of offense that right-thinking people take around differing hate words—came up when a friend of mine, a man who very much would be thought of as a progressive, questioned me about this central premise of the film. He said: but the Y-word isn't as bad as the N-word? I said: why not? He said: because Jews are rich.

Unequal societies are not only the most violent; they are also the least productive.

La más común y duradera fuente de fraccionamiento ha sido la variada y desigual distribución de la propiedad

Their country-place, Styles Court, had been purchased by Mr. Cavendish early in their married life. He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy, so much so that, on dying, he left the place to her for her lifetime, as well as the larger part of his income; an arrangement that was distinctly unfair to his two sons.

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.