Quotes About Disparity

The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations.

Ive lived in London all my life. There are some parts of London where a high percentage of people are on the bottom level of incomes. Treating such people as privileged is absurd and insulting.

Mental health is just as important as physical health, but why is it that we can't find the same access to mental health treatment as we do for physical health ailments?

One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.

Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland.

You see the world for what it is and what it could be, " Jack says. "What you don't see is the gaping chasm in between … and that's what I found.

Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

Like snowflakes, no two fistfights are the same.

like a shaft of coal jutting from a glass of milk.

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

It is estimated that if everyone on the planet adopted a Western lifestyle, we would need five planets to support us. Around 20% of people living in the wealthy Western world consume 86% of the world' s resources. The world' s wealthiest 225 people have combined assets roughly equal to the annual income of the poorest 2. 5 billion people.

In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

As our nation continues to slowly recover from the recession, it is clear some families are doing better than others.

During most of my playing career, the performance gap between men and women was slowly narrowing. Federations began providing more coaching and competitions for girls and women.

Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.

Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to the poorest slums.

As a kid, I felt I had it bad - and people where I came from did - but if I'd been in a similar position in America, it could've been 10 times worse. We have the NHS. We don't have slums like I've seen in the Deep south, or shocking intolerance.

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.

It's hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it everywhere. Readers sometimes think this world is so different; on the one hand, they feel connected to the people I'm writing about, and on the other hand, they're saying their lives are a world away.

Es la comunicación lo que alimenta la amistad, y esta no puede darse entre hijos y padres debido a la disparidad que existe entre ellos, y además, porque chocaría con los deberes que la naturaleza impone: ni los padres pueden contar a los hijos todos sus pensamientos íntimos, para no dar lugar a una confianza perjudicial y dañina, ni los hijos podrían dirigir a los padres las advertencias y correcciones que constituyen uno de los primeros deberes de la amistad.

The opulence of Bedford Square and the British Museum may be only a few hundred yards away, but New Oxford Street runs between there and here like a river too wide to swim, and you are on the wrong side.