Quotes About Disparity

He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never missed a meal or had a gun stuck to their heads.

this vacuum at the heart of privilege

are comparatively less well-off

Inequality by itself does not imply creation of poverty.

It's always the same thing: People are always out there doing really good work, both young bands who never get heard for one reason or another, and older bands that aren't getting played because maybe they're not current. And it's always wrong. It's wrong on all levels, so I don't know what you do about it. It is what it is.

Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR.

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

I don't want to be super aggressive, but I think it's an issue that the population of America isn't reflected accurately in a lot of movies. I'm just disappointed that there isn't an Asian leading man or an Asian leading woman. There's an obvious gap that should be filled.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

There is certainly an economic disparity between Bollywood and the regional film industry.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

You go to a lot of cities they've got these great big footballer's houses. There's not many in Stoke-on-Trent.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.

The postcode lottery means that the level of care you get differs hugely around the country, and the health service simply cannot meet every demand that is put upon it.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

now her stomach knotted as she remembered the Free-Lunch kids and her patronizing smiles toward them as they presented their dog-eared cards, and the steamy cafeteria ladies would call it out: Free Lunch! And the boy next to her, buzz-haired and confident, would whisper inanely: There's no such thing as a free lunch. And she'd feel sorry for the kids, but not in a way that made her want to help, just in a way that made her not want to look at them anymore.

In your country the munitions makers ride in their limousines and prepare their wars, while the workers cannot afford new shoes.

True to the general rule of slum life that the more money one made, the more poverty-stricken one had to look.

All political systems favour the powerful rich over the defenceless poor.

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

Increasingly, we're seeing two worlds in Canada. The world for most Canadians is increasingly unaffordable, involves more precarious work, and is a harder place in which to get by. The second world is an exclusive club for the wealthy and well-connected who get special access and are exempt from rules the rest of us play by.

Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.

When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.