Inequality Quotes Quotes

“The saddest thing in life is to see people suffer from hunger and POVERTY in a world of PLENTY.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Nature teaches us lessons that no book can teach. It teaches us that there is always inequality in life. Just look at the animals around you: Some are bigger than others, some are stronger than others, some live longer than others, some dominate others, and some survive at the expense of others.
Life is simply unfair.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

“Have you ever played Monopoly? It's a board game designed to teach kids capitalism. And what happens in the end? The winner has all the money, and everyone else has nothing. Woohoo! So much fun! That's literally how America works. That's why there are a few super rich people who own almost everything, and tens of millions of dirt poor people who have nothing.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book

“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized) who would not lift a hand against a fellow human being! They have established economic systems that perpetuate their superiority so the poor are blamed either for their laziness or their fate.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They pay lip service to it, they act by half measures and do everything to violate the laws they have themselves instituted to make sure the high class is always high. It never changes, it always goes in a circle, when the oppressed fight and get to the top, and they become the new elite and forget the promises.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

“Poverty is easier to conquer than injustice.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Human rights start with the freedom of equal income and educational opportunity. The deep-rooted inequalities like gender, colour, race and religion discriminations can be uprooted only through equal income and educational opportunity for all.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control you”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

“If you think of yourself as a follower of Christ’s teachings, if you consider yourself a good person, you are morally obligated to be against greed. It’s your duty as a good person to be against exploitation. It’s your moral duty to be against predatory capitalism.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book

“Over a century ago, prodded by the demands of four million men and women just emerging from slavery, Americans made their first attempt to live up to the noble professions of their political creed - something few societies have ever done. The effort produced a sweeping redefinition of the nation's public life and a violent reaction that ultimately destroyed much, but by no means all, of what had been accomplished. From the enforcement of the rights of citizens to the stubborn problems of economic and racial justice, the issues central to Reconstruction are as old as the American republic, and as contemporary as the inequalities that still afflict our society.”
― Eric Foner

“It is not right to suggest that every win for race equality results in a loss for white working-class people”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can’t afford medical care.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“If trickle-down economics worked, we would not have four food banks in Kensington and Chelsea.”
― Emma Dent Coad

“Closing the inequality gap is a force multiplier.”
― Leena Patel, Raise Your Innovation IQ: 21 Ways to Think Differently During Times of Change

“We are busy feeding the dead.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The best vaccine against hatred is education.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“If Eve was really created after Adam, then there is the beginning of the inequality that we keep talking about in our generation.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“RACISM CANNOT DISPEL INEQUALITY”
― J. Ruby

“Get furious about injustice and inequity in the world by all means. More importantly, get active about it.”
― Lorna Baldry

“Patriotism is not a flag in your DP, but to address the inequalities and injustices that linger within the country.”
― Bhushan Mahadani

“A voice lingered in the sky,
humming narratives
of decay orchestrated
by the mighty one...”
― Lila Marquez, Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems

“When inequality takes root, a garden of problems flourishes.”
― Chintha Sai Bhargav Reddy

“You belong to me. You'll do what I say or you'll suffer for it" (pg. 135)”
― Octavia Butler