Quotes about Inequality

The modern slave trader assures himself (or herself) that the desperate people are better off earning one dollar a day than no dollars at all, and that they are receiving the opportunity to become integrated into the larger world community.

That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.

Those born rich are harder to please than those born poor.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

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

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects