Quotes About Disparity

The percentages of black and ethnic players compared to those in management is a massive gap. We have to make sure we work hard enough to resolve that.

There is a huge gap between international and domestic cricket. That gap needs to be lessened. Our domestic circuit needs to step up.

When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting.

The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.

In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.

There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.

Let's set things straight... there are 300 million people living in countries within the Nile basin in horrific economic and security conditions. The $500 that they earn in Israel every month is an annual salary in their countries of origin.

As someone who attended six different public schools across America, went to Harvard, and subsequently became a tutor in Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side, I've witnessed firsthand the differences in learning styles between public school educations and private.

Establishing a 'livable wage' floor would immediately reduce the gap in average pay between American women and men.

There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists in Brazil is uncannily similar to that found in Pakistan, and I hope to one day make a film that follows similar themes.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

We're a superpower with a Third World grid.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called Third World.

I've just got a real thirst for knowledge now, especially seeing how the world is, seeing how the disparity is with African American men, and I want to do something special. And getting a degree from Duke is special, especially coming from where I come from.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if the architect had tried to combine a southern plantation mansion with the slave quarters.

On the other side of the tracks - the tracks were there - the business section wore its old Spanish facades like icing on a stale cake.

Ya en esto se puede rastrear una división de clases, entre los que tienen algo que perder y los que nunca han tenido ni tendrán intención de poseer