Quotes About Inequity

The root cause, simply put, is globalization, and the resulting monopolization of wealth by a global elite.

The next time you clap on your expensive Bose headphones or fire up your car stereo, you had to consider that they were put together a hundred yards from Arizona by someone living in a hut in the Sonoran Desert

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

I guess it comes down to greed. You don't pay folks, you make more money. That and thinking one race wasn't as good as another.

These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual." But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Henry says, 'Her Grace will withdraw.' Jane is shaking. 'They are too much burdened with taxes.' The king leans forward. 'The burdens of tax do not rest on the shoulders of labourers, or small husbandmen. Dives, the rich man, knows and has always known how to pass off his interests as the interests of Lazarus, the beggar.

Chicago has the country's widest racial disparity in life expectancy—a gap of thirty years between Streeterville (nine miles north), where people expect to live to ninety, and my mom's old neighborhood, Englewood, where people live to only age sixty.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

most people in England had no access to a dentist

To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.

Congress sets the rules and says: "Save all the taxes you can, but play the game according to the rules. If there is an inequity, we'll change the rules.

The sole equality on earth is death.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

Survival was a breeze that touched some and not others. Neither hope nor hopelessness had anything to do with it.

In Phnom Penh, it seems that the more money you have, the more stairs you have to climb to your home. Ma

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. —The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan)

It seems there are no rich on death row.