I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.
Alice WalkerThe fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
BonoWhen the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
Jean-Paul SartreYou can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor RooseveltI think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.
Alice WalkerI think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.
George CarlinI have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
Noam ChomskyMoney is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.
Robert KiyosakiI cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
Jackie RobinsonIf I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
Jackie RobinsonWhat ‚multiculturalism‘ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Thomas SowellImagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.
Thomas SowellAny unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
Huey NewtonA riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.
Jordan PetersonWe still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret AtwoodThose who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
Desmond TutuCapitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Thomas SowellModern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. KennedyWhat is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
Desmond TutuThere is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
Fidel CastroMen don’t really like skinny, do they?
Angelina JolieI think the word rich is all relative.
Joel OsteenWell before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.
Noam ChomskyWhite people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.
Muhammad AliThe basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John LennonScience in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
Vivienne WestwoodAfrica is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
BonoNothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
PlatoCapitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.
Richard BransonYou can say, ‚Well, isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine‘ – well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter, because that is how it’s represented. It’s been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can’t change it. It’s not possible. This is underneath everything.
Jordan PetersonThere are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Jean-Paul SartreThe vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPoor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William ShakespeareThe people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao TzuI can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
Madeleine AlbrightRegardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.
Billy GrahamIn my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.
Terry PratchettIf you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.
Robert KiyosakiIf investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.
Pope FrancisI think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
Lady GagaBut while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
Beyonce KnowlesPalestinians have no wealth or power.
Noam ChomskyOur generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
Margaret AtwoodA state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Winston ChurchillVery few people can afford to be poor.
George Bernard ShawOne leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert CamusEven after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
Narendra ModiThere’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.
Jordan PetersonThe middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.
J. K. RowlingThe more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
Stephen CoveyThe poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
J. K. RowlingThe capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.
Vivienne WestwoodI felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
BonoI think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice WalkerAlmost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti