Quotes about Disparity
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
— Francois Rabelais
All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.
— Paulo Coelho
But logic ignores the more-or-less as absolutely as the sun ignores the candlelight.
— Victor Hugo
The degree of political pressure to make MGNREGA jobs available varies massively from state to state - which is why access to MGNREGA jobs is worse in a very poor state like Bihar than in a richer state like Andhra Pradesh.
— Abhijit Banerjee
There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.
— Shane Claiborne
For the church as we know it is a tragically dysfunctional family, in which some children are starving while others have food stashed in their closets. Some of us are living on the street while others have empty rooms in our homes. And, of course, there are all sorts of things being done that bring great dishonor and embarrassment to the family name.
— Shane Claiborne
Conscience is the endowment that senses our congruence or disparity with correct principles and lifts us toward them—when it's in shape.
— Stephen Covey
Income inequity has to be addressed.
— Joe Biden
Three billion—one half of humanity—live on less than two dollars a day.
— Bill Hybels
the conductor shouts All aboard! when the smoke is blown away and the vapor condensed, it will be perceived that a few are riding, but the rest are run over—and it will be called, and will be, A melancholy accident.
— Henry David Thoreau
The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences
— Hillary Clinton
Climate change pries further apart the haves and have-nots.
— Martin Luther King III