Quotes About Disparity

Today we hear that the gains from economic growth accrue to the highest-income earners while the standard of living of the poor and middle America stagnates and the gap between the richest and the poorest grows ever wider. That portrait of the country is wrong.

I've learnt that there's absolutely no difference in Telugu and Hindi industries. Everything is almost identical. The only difference is that Hindi films have a wider release.

Large companies everywhere tend to be more productive than small ones. But the gap in productivity is far wider in developing countries.

You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.

I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men's game.

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

The greatest stain upon this great Australian nation's character, without any question, is the great gaps that exist between our Aboriginal brothers and sisters in terms of their health, their education, their living conditions, their incarceration rates and life expectancy. It's a great stain.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

India and Pakistan became free within hours of each other. Why is it that today India is a recognised IT superpower in the world, and Pakistan is recognised only as the pre-eminent export factory for terror?

Lack of understanding of interrelatedness has caused numerous divisions and conflicts that are the cause of many major challenges in the world such as war, violence, terrorism, economic disparity, and exploitation.

A poor person in my community doesn't see a person driving a Tesla and say, 'That benefits me.'

For 2015, the Equality Index found that blacks had on average only 56 percent of the economic well-being and 61 percent of social justice benefits that whites enjoy.

Desde que yo entré en la universidad el foso que nos separaba se agrandó de golpe y ahora somos como de dos planetas distintos.

Su lengua entró hasta la garganta Olía a cigarrillos y a comida cara. Yo olía a cigarrillos y a comida pobre, pero las dos comidas eran buenas.

and again, they were opposite of each other in every way, and each way was wonderful.

Where is the justice of fate, when a half-wit has in abundance and values not at all that which I so desperately lack?

This is not a restaurant. Restaurants serve different things from this.

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all, added little Amy, with an injured sniff.

Trying to equalize his status with his brothers, Frank lived on a lavish scale that far outstripped his income.

While the GEB achieved remarkable things in upgrading southern education, it failed to deliver major results where it had originally wanted them most: in black education.

Fifty million Arabs in seven neighboring Arab states, five regular Arab armies, a million Arabs in Palestine—against 650,000 Jews.