Quotes About Disparity

When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

Do they have to explain to Suburban Peter why they're fleecing him for Ghetto Paul?

on the one hand she had boundless trust in me, merely because I was thirty years older, a childish trust, and on the other hand no respect at all. I was vexed to find I expected respect.

Here in the United States we appear to be becoming more and more a country devoted to amenities for the rich, more and more neglectful of the poor.

We're not all created equal. There are the Carries and Royces of the world, high up in their gated mansions and their fancy schools, and then there's me and my family, who are just struggling to keep our footing. Though our paths may cross momentarily, maybe it's better to stick to our own circle, so we don't get hurt when we crash into each other.

Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.

It was a strange thing about people-they could look the same but be different.

The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower. Deuteronomy 28:43

My characters in each of my films bear no resemblance to each other.

Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your city every day has its costs, even if the 'poor door' woman would be considered affluent in another location.

I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.

African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in educational resources has caused this problem of disparate discipline and disparate academic outcomes.

The significant disparity in work opportunities for people with disabilities is the direct result of government programs and policies that propagate dependency.

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

Today, the eight richest individuals on earth, all men, own more than does half the planet,6 or 3.7 billion people, combined. The top 1 per cent have more wealth than the bottom 99 per cent combined. There are 1,542 billionaires today, whose fortunes rose by a fifth in 2017,7 to $6 trillion – equivalent to the GDP of the UK and Germany combined.

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

Nick was definitely swoonworthy, but she had to be real. He was not for her. He was a big-time artist guy on his way to Dubai. She was a small-town girl who ran a destination wedding business. They had nothing in common.

La pobreza no es más surreal que la riqueza; un cuerpo vestido con harapos mugrosos no es más surreal que una princesa vestida para un baile o un desnudo prístino.

America had created a marvelous economic machine, but evidently one that worked only for those at the top. "Of the 1% for the 1% by the 1%

She was the avatar of the town as it used to be in some Old South utopia that only existed if you were white and well-to-do and Baptist and didn't notice how folks who weren't all of those things had fared.

In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.

Income inequality isn't sexy.

Inequality is on the rise.