437 Quotes About Inequality

Women the world over suffer restrictions.

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal.

The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.

There is a duality to South Africa, as in all of life itself, that is evident, and as stark as the inequality among its citizens

Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? (asked Yali)

Privileged groups work for greater power consolidation through favoritism.

Bottom dogs have to be persuaded of the desirability of inequality.

As inequality has grown, as its negative consequences have become harder and harder to ignore, our response has been to put more and more weight on the educational system, to look to school reform as the means of closing the 'achievement gap' and of guaranteeing the increasingly illusory promise of equal opportunity. We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.