Quotes About Disparity

in this country where an hour's train ride will take you from Siberian snow into African desert, unity of population is hardly to be expected.

There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty.

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.

Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.

Western though is fixated on the gap between what is and what ought to be.

The contrast was startling: the beauty of the ridges against the poverty of the people who lived between them. There were some pretty homes with neat lawns and white picket fences, but the neighbors were usually not as prosperous.

England was so much richer and more powerful than its northern neighbor.

There were regional inequalities within Scotland.

The vast difference between what this country was saying and apparently believing, and what the black man was experiencing, was embittering.

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

Here in briefest form is the modern political dialectic. It is an unequal contest: the rich and the comfortable have influence and money. And they vote. The concerned and the poor have numbers, but many of the poor, alas, do not vote. There is democracy, but in no slight measure it is a democracy of the fortunate.

Since 1980, the salaries of executives in FTSE 100 companies have risen by 4,000% compared to 300% for their employees.

But even after European medicine changed, medicine in the United States did not. In research and education especially, American medicine lagged far behind, and that made practice lag as well.

enormous gap existed in the United States between the best medical practice and the average, and an unbridgeable chasm separated the best from the worst.

As the Hopkins medical school was opening, American theological schools enjoyed endowments of $18 million, while medical school endowments totaled $500,000. The difference in financial support as well as educational systems largely explained why Europeans had achieved the bulk of medical advances.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

Nothing is so unequal as equality.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.