Quotes About Disparity

Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

I've never quite understood why the knuckleheads of the planet so outnumber the rest of us.

All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.

You have 62 people worth the amount the bottom three and a half billion people are worth. Sixty-two people! You could put them all in one bloody bus… then crash it!

He's so outta my league, we're not even playing the same sport… He's professional soccer in Europe and I'm intramural badminton in the States.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Imagination and reality have little in common

Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven't been.

We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.

Different strokes for different folks.

I like it that we are not the same.

The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

One man's floor is another woman's ceiling .

I wish social disparity has long gone, people can be genuine, and news can be fact-based and error-free.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong;

had shocked him into speechlessness to realize that down-and-outs in New Jersey expected to have more in the way of amenities than coal miners and sharecroppers in most of West Virginia, and that people in the North believed that there was no one, anywhere, who still had to go out in the cold in the middle of the winter to use a chemical latrine.