Judy Sheindlin Quotes

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty often have a share in their misfortunes.

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.