Quotes about Inequality

We had expected three cots in our room, but found one large lumpy bed, a very worn carpet and a single overhead light. "You mean this is what these people got out of their revolution?" Martha daintily picked her way around the room. "Someone should tell them that they're about due for another." She wrinkled her pretty face in distaste. Ethel

I think that everyone thought that the Depression like everything else, was for the white-folks, so it had nothing to do with them.

Many of those living in poverty in this country, in fact, would be considered quite wealthy by poor people in other countries.

The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower. Deuteronomy 28:43

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

There's not a lot of hope coming from the inner city.

The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

In 2004, Americans spent about $46 billion to lose weight and $22 billion on cosmetics. Those expenditures alone would make the difference between life and death for the people of the world who are dying of starvation

looking over the budgets of a number of the small landowners, whose position is much better than that of the average farm labourer, I found that as much as $5 was spent for wine, while the item for meat was only $2 per year. There are thousands of people in Sicily, I learned, who almost never taste meat. The studies which have been made of the subject indicate that the whole population is underfed.

In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no-how. I can't seem to get over that line.

Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.