Quotes about Inequality

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them.

They then started to test the other children, and it was discovered that none of us had sufficient vitamin C, D, or A in our diets. We never had fruit, never had raw leafy greens, never had milk. There was plenty of this on the Island, you know, but it was all sold, every scrap of it, to the mainland, and had been since slavery time.

Folks crying and fanning and trying to keep a stray eye on the children, but they don't stare at Sofia and her sisters. They act like this the way it always done. I love folks.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet… but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

The poor shall never cease out of the land.

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?

The poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb.

The poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.