Quotes About Inequity

Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.

I loathe the very thought of airports and also airlines taking as much from you as possible and giving very little back.

We have growing wealth creation and growing social inequality. Powerful

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.

Capps earned over nine million last year and paid a pittance in taxes.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

People who can see their neighbors with air-conditioning and cars, but who themselves live in shacks and often lack sewage disposal or a reliable water supply, have little to lose, and may find violence a rational option.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Is anyone in the U.S. innocent? Although those at the very pinnacle of the economic pyramid gain the most, millions of us depend—either directly or indirectly—on the exploitation of the LDCs for our livelihoods. The resources and cheap labor that feed nearly all our businesses come from places like Indonesia, and very little ever makes its way back.

We're in the wrong universe for fair.

A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.

We believe that Francis's spirituality embodies a convergence of mysticism, liberation theology, and prophetic evangelism that speak loudly to those contemporary Christians who long to do something about inequity and poverty, about consuming consumerism and driven emptiness.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

The death penalty is almost universally a punishment for the poor, for those without the money to get competent counsel. The adage remains true about the death penalty: "Those without the capital get the punishment.

In her 2011 book, Marx and Education, she claimed, "An important insight of Marx was that capitalism is an economic system that cannot function without fundamental inequality—meaning that inequity is built into the way the system works. Business owners must make a profit to survive, and those who do not own businesses must find jobs and work in these enterprises, if they are to provide for themselves and their families.

Whites break the law too, but it is always the poor and the nonwhites who actually do the time in penitentiaries.

there's a concrete difference between how we treat an individual who commits fraud within the structure of a giant multinational company with a lot of settlement money lying around, and how we treat, say, an ordinary broke person who commits welfare or unemployment fraud.

if it's so far been our biological situation that we're the ones stuck bearing the children, then there should be a lot more social recompense and reparations for this inequity than there are. The reason these have been slow in coming? Because women keep forgetting to demand them

He recognizes that the inherent tendency of history is for the wealthy to win out and make society increasingly unequal. This argument also has been made by Thomas Piketty and based largely on the inheritance of great fortunes

The great white joker in the sky dooms us all to stupidity or poverty from birth. No two things on earth are equal or have an equal chance, not a leaf or a tree.

La mort est le grand égalisateur

Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So there's a little inequity there about knowledge.