Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Economic inequality

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.
- Alveda King
America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.
- MC Ren
On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
The store-house cities are an ancient parallel to the great banks and insurance houses where surplus wealth is kept among us. That surplus wealth, produced by the cheap labor of peasants, must now be protected from the peasants by law and by military force.
- Walter Brueggemann
I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
- Ricky Gervais