Quotes About Disparity

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come.

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On average married black women contribute 40 percent to household income compared with only 29 percent for white women.8 Simply put, all wives did not contribute to their households in the same way: Black women were likely to earn as much (or more) money as their husbands, while white women were likely to earn much less.

Women may make slightly less—maybe—but the seventy-seven cents to the dollar statistic is what men and women make, on average. It isn't a comparison of the two sexes in the same jobs, with the same experience. It's comparing total earnings across all jobs, which ends up being apples to oranges in many cases.

Men choose high-paying fields like engineering, chemistry, and mining more often than women do. Women choose lower-paying fields like education and social work more often than men do. This accounts for most of the difference.

Much of life, however, is characterized by what the sociologist Robert Merton called the Matthew Effect, named after a sentence from the book of Matthew in the Bible, which laments "For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.

In the United States, for example, two equally skilled and disciplined athletes—one a world-class gymnast and the other a world-class basketball player—are likely to enjoy wildly different degrees of fame and fortune through no fault or merit of their own.

Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Looking around at the diversity within our human race, it is obvious that 0.01% accounts for a significant difference in how we look, think, and behave.

was doomed to fall short, because of the gap between facts and truth.

Librarians were paid shit and required a masters; chefs traveled the world. Cooking school it was.

When the daily number of words for each group of children is projected across four years, the four-year-old child from the professional family will have heard 45 million words, the working-class child 26 million, and the welfare child only 13 million.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.