437 Quotes About Inequality

As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women.

Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo, crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Probably not.

I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.

We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.

Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?

La majorité, c'est personne. La minorité, c'est tout le monde.

Black women," Toya said as I walked her to the subway, "are the meatloaf at a Greek diner. People sometimes talk about ordering it, but everyone's surprised when someone does, even black men.

Between the whores' world and God's world, like a river dividing two empires, stretches an intense smell of urine.

Oh, what can’t you men talk about love! You seem to think that any one of you is worth giving up all that a woman has lived for.