Quotes About Disparity

I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

I have never been paid equally to my male counterparts, and it's mainly because of bankability.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

For too long now, cricket has got all the attention and money. Look at how much financial help cricket gets from the sports federations.

I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.

There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.

Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle.

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

When you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat and all these twentysomething billionaires, it's really kind of fascinating; a classic tale of the haves and have-nots.

I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

the only thing above average is the cow-to-human ratio.

median white household wealth (assets minus liabilities) is about $134,000, while median black household wealth is about $11,000—less than 10 percent as much. Not all of this enormous difference is attributable to the government's racial housing policy, but a good portion of it certainly is.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

About one in 16 White males can expect to go to a state or federal prison during his lifetime, yet for Black males this lifetime probability is one out of three (Bureau of the Census 2010a:Tables 320, 346, 615; Gaines 2005).

In the Northeast there was $77 in circulation per inhabitant. As late as 1880, the South had a quarter of the country's population but only 10 percent of its currency.

Congress also refused to give the South subsidies proportional to those that went to the West and Northeast.

Contract freedom quickly revealed itself as a delusion when those negotiating contracts were so incommensurate in wealth and power.

Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail.

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Everyone is born. But not everyone is born the same. One way or another though, every human being is unique, for better or worse.

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.