Inequality Quotes
Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.
I'm convinced that not all units of time are equal.
You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.
If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.
Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.
All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to
The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.
Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly.
This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.
There can never be equality, so long the heavens have decided together with the darkness in the heart of men, such idealistic desire will never come to fruition.
Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.
Actions that exemplify the limitations of a singular devotion to the profit motive, also draw a troublesome distinction between what is legal and what is moral.
The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.
No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain.Me.
I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!
People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.
The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.
Sadly, our society still perpetuates the false ideal that a real man should be all masculine, and a real woman all feminine. Neither is possible, nor desirable.
Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.
The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.
...distinction between growth and development. Aggregate growth in national economic indicators need not mean an improved life for the majority of the people.
Moving beyond past wounds and hurts and building a culture of respect, dignity, and flowering love
Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.
By defining the problem as "hunger, " the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.
If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken
If we agree that God did not create poverty then, in my opinion, it came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.
If we agree that God did not create poverty, then in my opinion, poverty came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.
In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take 'good' decisions.
Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.
One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation.
So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.
America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indirectly, to our economic and social iniquities, to our system of remorseless exploitation and robbery.
People are like stars in the night sky, all are not equal, but still, everyone shines.
Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.
Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria