Quotes about Inequality

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You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. — Jodi Picoult, Mercy
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselv — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and prover — Jane Austen, Persuasion
The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Ric — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true t — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The issue of false consciousness is a genuinely difficult problem that has no definite solution. We should not approve o — Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide
The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandm — Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות
Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swal — Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
To the liberal class, every big economic problem is really an education problem, a failure by the losers to learn the ri — Thomas Frank, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational r — Michael S. Roth, Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us a — Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on — Yaron Brook, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
I'm convinced that not all units of time are equal. — Crystal Woods, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Science faculties at renowned research institutions were given two identical CVs to assess. Half the scientists received — Emer O'Toole, Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently
Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why — Christine de Pizan, Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and th — Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War