Quotes About Disparity

The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

Working families spend about 90 percent of their income on consumption - buying stuff. The rich spend less than 45 percent.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

She realized that knowing someone comes from money isn't the same as witnessing the extent of it in close proximity

According to the Institute for Policy Studies (Anderson, Collins, Klinger, Pizzigati, 2011) the ratio between a CEO and an average company salary stood at 42 to 1 back in 1980, while it climbed to 263 to 1 and to 325 to 1 in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

when we talk about justice, we have to, in my view, understand that there is no justice when so few have so much and so many have so little.

There is no justice, and I want you to hear this clearly, when the top one-tenth of 1 percent—not 1 percent, the top one-tenth of 1 percent—today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.

52 percent of all new income generated is going to the top 1 percent.

While an exceptionally wealthy few wallow in affluence and become exponentially richer with each passing day, the majority of Americans live lives of quiet desperation.

Our struggle is against a system where the top twenty-five hedge fund managers in the United States pocket more money than 350,000 kindergarten teachers combined. When did we the people make that determination? When did we decide that a drug company executive at Moderna can collect a "golden parachute" valued at $926 million for not working, while EMT workers who work around the clock to save lives make as little as $40,000 a year?

People differ, and, probably, will always differ, as to the light in which they regard war. A

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

By closing one eye, you removed binocular vision, the slight variance in images, called "binocular disparity," that occurs when we view an object with both eyes open. Binocular vision—sometimes called "depth perception"—allows us to see the world as three-dimensional. When you close one eye, the single image is two-dimensional—that is, it is flat, like a photograph, and therefore can be "copied" onto flat paper.

Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80% among the affluent and 20% among those in poverty.

By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

The cruel injustice is that even though the world's poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they're going to suffer the most from it.

When the peak temperature in leafy suburbs can be lower by as much as fifteen degrees, "landscape is a predictor for mobidity in heatwaves," in the words of one study, which found that African Americans were "52% more likely than white people to live in areas of unnatural 'heat risk-related land cover.'" Imagine what it's like in a refugee camp, or a prison. It's hell, is what it is.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.

How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?

I'm much larger than you are. So we can't share anything equally. Grow up a little and you'll see what I mean.

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.