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Quotes About Disparity

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?
~ Simon Kuznets
Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.
~ Derek Bok
Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.
~ Timothy Noah
The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me.
~ Janet Yellen
'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.
~ Jesse Andrews
The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.
~ David Hogg
We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.
~ Caroline Lucas
In the world there is a debate over inequity, and sometimes we get caught up in that, and retail does in general.
~ Doug McMillon
After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.
~ Janet Yellen
When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.
~ Tim Wise
It's sometimes hard for people who have wealth and privilege to understand how frightening life can be for those who have neither
~ Faith Martin
Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!
~ Fannie Flagg
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
~ Ferdinand Mount
Las grandes desigualdades de nuestro siglo son las que separan a quienes saben y tienen acceso educativo a las fuentes el conocimiento de quienes necesitan la tutela informativa de los demás toda la vida
~ Fernando Savater
los ricos son los administradores de los bienes de Dios ¿habrase visto mayor disparate? Dios no existe y el que no existe no tiene bienes…
~ Fernando Vallejo
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Who had decided that some should have so little and others so much?
~ Fiona Wood
The destruction of Black males for the purpose of white genetic survival is the reason behind the ever-increasing disparity between the number of Black females entering and graduating from high schools and institutions of higher education compared to the far lesser number of Black males.
~ Frances Cress Welsing
In 2004, Americans spent about $46 billion to lose weight and $22 billion on cosmetics. Those expenditures alone would make the difference between life and death for the people of the world who are dying of starvation
~ Billy Graham
Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure. The Rich stay healthy, the Sick stay poor.
~ bono quotes iii
We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe. Some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cupcakes than others; some are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.
~ Harper Lee
some people have more opportunity because they're born with it…
~ Harper Lee
We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe - some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others - some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.
~ Harper Lee
We know all men are not created equal in the sense that we believe - some people are smarter than others, some have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others - some people are more gifted beyond the normal scope of most men
~ Harper Lee