Quotes About Disparity

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I dont believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, particularly when there is a moral factor involved.

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

Elle n'aime pas sortir, je n'aime pas rentrer. Elle n'aime pas jouer, je n'aime pas perdre. (L'échappée belle, p.63)

True, all the streets and roads are very clean, and the school has been freshly painted, but why does that cow have to pull a wagon even though she's pregnant? Why is that child who has filled her apron with grass looking around in fear? And, of course, if you're driving through or looking down from an airplane, you can't see farmer Wurz sitting on his milking stool in the dark barn.

Le couple, assez fortuné, logeait dans un vieil hôtel chic, P. et moi dans une petite pension. Nous faisions peu l'amour, et rapidement, ne profitant pas de l'avantage que procurait mon état – le mal était fait – pas plus sans doute que le chômeur ne profite du temps et de la liberté que lui accorde l'absence de travail, ou le malade perdu de la permission de manger et boire de tout.

Ironically, if you look at Dianne Feinstein's profile and you look at my profile, I'm the 99 percent. Dianne Feinstein's the one percent. She appeals to one percent.

The profound lack of economic opportunity for those left behind by globalization has created an ever-widening gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots.'

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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He differed from the healthy type that was essentially middle class—he never seemed to perspire. Some people couldn't be familiar with a chauffeur without having it returned;

The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

One thing's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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In Bangladesh, there are fewer than eight hospital beds for every 10,000 people, a quarter the capacity in the United States and an eighth the capacity in the European Union.

Newborns in Chicago's majority-White, upscale Streeterville neighborhood can expect, on average, to live to be ninety years old. That is three decades more than those born in Englewood, a predominantly African American neighborhood to the south.

Various studies estimate that somewhere between 70 million and 430 million people will be pushed back into extreme poverty over the next few years. The most essential inequality—between the very richest and the poorest humans on the planet—is now growing again and at a rapid rate.

The top 10% of America owns almost 70% of the total wealth of the country—from houses and cars to stocks and bonds—while the bottom 50% own just 1.5%

America was defined by "private opulence and public squalor.

Only 13% of people in households making over $100,000 were laid off or furloughed, compared with 39% in households making less than $40,000.

At the end of April 2020, low-income and middle-income countries, which have 84% of the world's population, were home to just 14% of the world's known deaths from Covid-19.

The plain man's house was palatial, even by the