Quotes about Inequality
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
— Maya Angelou
The average European, whether male or female, is extremely sensitive, always ready to shoulder the blame for the poverty of Africa or Asia, to sorrow over the world's problems, to assume responsibility for them, always ready to ask what Europeans can do for the South rather than asking what the South could do for itself.
— Pascal Bruckner
The highest paid members of our society are not the people who teach us, heal us, or lead us in worship; the people we are willing to award with inordinate sums of money are the people who entertain us.
— Paul David Tripp
Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
— Genesis 29:26
The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
— Deuteronomy 28:43
He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
— Deuteronomy 28:44
Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
— Esther 5:13
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
— Job 20:19
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
— Job 21:7
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
— Job 22:9