Quotes About Disparity

Unfortunately, Hoover's calculation rested on an oversight: The distribution of America's new wealth was severely lopsided, the overwhelming share flowing directly into the bank accounts of the very rich, leaving the poor with few or no gains at all.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

It was hard to believe that in a society of computer chips, banana chips, and anti-lock brakes, of sitcoms, Home Shopping Clubs, and pay-per-view, and of surround-sound stereos and microwave ovens—it was hard to believe that such destitution could exist at all, much less under the very nose of the same society… He'd

Everything's connected," I answered. "That doesn't mean everyone's working towards the same goal.

Chihuahuas and collies?" echoed the Mistress, "What a combination! It's like... judging hummingbirds and eagles!

You grow up in a community with abandoned homes, a jobless rate of over 25 percent, underfunded schools, and you stand outside your home, look at the city's gleaming downtown skyline, at its prosperity, and you know your place in the world.

It is shades that clash, not colors.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

The Indian elite send their children to expensive private schools, bypassing the public school system. They have their own infrastructure for water, with sumps to store it, pumps to lift it, and fancy filters to de-risk from erratic, polluted government water. Most access private healthcare to bridge the health services deficit.

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.

Don't get me wrong: I think that everyone should put forth an effort to do better, but let's face it, some of us are just plain luckier than others.

Unfortunately - as I have experienced first-hand, as many artists have - there's a gaping hole between platinum and non-existent. There's no in-between.

Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.

British shows, especially on a first commission, don't get the cash that the U.S. shows get.

If you look at the NBA compared to the WNBA we make half of one per cent of what the men are allowed to make.

When comparing many things in life the difference between average and best is say 30% but some people are 50 times more effective than others.

I write different kinds of stuff, from 'Two Dollars In The Jukebox' to 'Suspicions,' that really don't belong next to each other on an album.