Quotes About Disparity

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.

We live in a strange world where the poor walk miles to get food, and the rich walk miles to digest food.

For each mouth, a different soup.

This alter-electorate was prepared to exact not revenge but absorption. It was a swallowing of the conservative beast with a maw of injustice, disparity, and want. They were over, the white conservatives, this ghost ship notwithstanding

Between the health care that we have now and the health care that we could have lies not just a gap, but a chasm. —Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, 2001 We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. —Albert Einstein

By the middle of the 1990s, the United States had the smallest and fastest-shrinking middle class among seventeen industrialized nations,[45] and it is hardly new for reports to state today as they do that the U.S. middle class still fails to compete well with those other nations (even though the U.S. wealthy are nearly without parallel).

Nullifying or "neutralizing" the work and effects of such dissidents and organizers of alternative social structures is a third way that carceral state terror protects a system of economic disparity.

The symbol provides a spectacular drama wherein collectivized and concentrated dark bodies enable white communities to isolate transgression, and transgressive bodies, locating those bodies away from the allegedly purer and safer regions whites think they inhabit. Racial disparity and stereotype is thereby naturalized, appearing to white minds—and sometimes to some peoples of color themselves—as simply a way of marking social fault and transgression. At

By the 1990s the UK was the most unequal society in the Western world, with around fourteen million living in poverty, including over four million children, but other west European countries were heading in the same direction.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.

It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.

The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

Peace can never be achieved by violence or aggression. Peace only happens when disparity is gone. When fear is driven out, and love is replaced with fear then evidently the world will be a better place.

Affluence creates poverty.