Quotes about Inequality

and yet neither the bishops nor canons care how the poor people live or die, for whom nevertheless Christ has died, and who are not permitted to hear Him speak with them as the true Shepherd with His sheep.

It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

The average European, whether male or female, is extremely sensitive, always ready to shoulder the blame for the poverty of Africa or Asia, to sorrow over the world's problems, to assume responsibility for them, always ready to ask what Europeans can do for the South rather than asking what the South could do for itself.

The highest paid members of our society are not the people who teach us, heal us, or lead us in worship; the people we are willing to award with inordinate sums of money are the people who entertain us.

Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.