437 Quotes About Inequality

[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends of these divisions to go unchecked.

It is not the role of government or any central planner to formulate the final distributions of wealth and income.

Today, rather than a democracy we have a plutocracy (rule by moneyed interests) in which some of the formal elements of democracy nonetheless remain. Needless to say a real democracy ... is impossible where income, wealth, and power are concentrated and where inequality is growing, that is, in the normal ways of things under capitalism

Poverty often puts some people below the law.

Everyone is so enamored with the puppet; they never notice the man pulling the strings.

Monster? Monster, you say?” He scratched his chest, blood dripping from what seemed to be an old wound. “No, my friend. I have SEEN real monsters. I have faced real darkness, heart beating out of your chest with death all around you. The stench of piss and shit as men empty themselves in their final moments. I have experienced real terror. Terror, a simple man like you, could never fathom

You are one, and we are many, We are everywhere and nowhere at the same time. We are the face of justice.

[W]e need to acknowledge that violence begets violence. There are no violent people who were not first violated.

Inequality makes people feel poor and act poor, even when they're not.