Quotes about Inequality

The US has 5 percent of the world's population, and 25 percent of the world's prison population.

God sees the world through the eyes of those most oppressed.

The government was taking money, jobs, college slots, and status away from hardworking, deserving people like us and handing it all to people like them—those who didn't share our values, who didn't work as hard as we did, the kind of people whose problems were of their own making.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.

One percent of the brotherhood has their hands on most of the bread. They own the country, their god is the free market, and most people are so unhorrified they won't even question the system. If it makes a profit, that's the definition of good. If it grows, you have to stand back and let it. The free market has exactly the same morality as a cancer cell.

Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city has become a whore! She was once all justice, everyone living as good neighbors, And now they're all at one another's throats. Your coins are all counterfeits. Your wine is watered down. Your leaders are turncoats who keep company with crooks. They sell themselves to the highest bidder and grab anything not nailed down. They never stand up for the homeless, never stick up for the defenseless.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

One can lynch a person without a rope or tree.