Quotes About Disparity

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

One man's poison is another's elixir.

When I was little, I'd attended a neighborhood potluck there with Poppy and Aunt Ruth. There were tables full of casseroles, salads, and desserts. Was it possible that, now, just down the road, children were looking for food in trash cans?

these always paid less than men's jobs did.

After all, he was rigid where she was flexible. He was black and white, and she was all the rainbow in between, and they didn't go together.

Planet Earth isn't a fair place. It's unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn't fair. Not for anybody.

If youre the Kardashians, a family vacation means private jets to the Maldives, luxury yachts, and 5-star dinners. But for the rest of us, its usually more about endless car trips, gas station meals, bratty little sisters, and about ten trillion embarrassing moments.

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't

For privileged people, equality in an unequal world is a bonanza.

All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.

Society is made up of two classes those who get more than they earn and those earn more than they get.

America, like a few other nations, has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divide a handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a mire of luxury, and millions of laboring starving men and women who are always staring want in the face.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

It will be interesting to have chance to view and the places from rich and poor to see what happens... if somebody knows the chance to do it it's smaller than before.

Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are 'developed' and those who are not?

When I started at [Nina] Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

when equality is given to unequal things, the resultant will be unequal...

El hecho de que unos creen arte mientras otros padecen, ¿no es una prueba escandalosa de la injusticia del mundo? ¿Cómo pueden concordar entre sí el sollozo del mundo y el canto del arte?

Some starve. Some eat. Disparity is simply the order of things. It's only when fat men make sauce out of other's starvation that it becomes a sin.

the house looked shoddy in comparison with its neighbors. It stood out in the elegant street of terraced houses like a meatball in caviar.