Quotes about Inequality

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.

I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.

Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom (England) is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 millions took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.