Inequality Quotes

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

“A peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.”

“It is the top billion people who are wrecking the planet.”

“On the field, blacks have been able to be superstars. But once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus.”

“We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that are poor. We have a lot of people that are hurting. And we're a country that has values that we don't always live up to.”

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.”

“But the black choreographers are not given the same platforms that are given to their white counterparts.”

“Our class="highlight">inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.”

“In a political system where nearly every adult may vote but where knowledge, wealth, social position, access to officials, and other resources are unequally distributed, who actually governs?”

“For a few to be immortal, many must die.”

“What has happened is that a tiny, interconnected elite has drawn an ever-larger share of the nation's income and wealth into its own hands.”

“We have a system of justice in this country that is for sale.”

“A woman has to be twice as good as a man to get half as far.”

“Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.”

“This is a pivotal moment in American history. The class="highlight">billionaire class is out of control.”

“The condition of the weak is the same everywhere: it is a waiting room.”

“The poor are the ones who get the death penalty.”

“When you have a world in which people believe that they're not being treated fairly, you have a world that's unstable.”

“Austerity is the weapon of the rich against the poor.”

“Globalization, as it has been practiced, has been a great boon for a few and a source of anxiety and misery for many.”