Inequality of Access Quotes

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing.

I think the Jamaicans are among the most talented people on the planet; it's just that through circumstances, through poverty, they rarely get the chance to bring those talents to the fore.

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

The legal profession has been built by men for men in a man’s world. Women find it distinctly uncomfortable.

You can’t have simultaneous notification on important issues. Some people always get the word before others.

These $40 burgers with foie gras and truffles and all of that flies in the face of one of the most proletarian foods around. It's overpriced, overdone and just not worth it.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.

Things I've been talking about for a long time as systemic problems, the American public has also begun to see something needs to be done down here.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

For Americans the doctrine of universal equality is a doctrine of death …

I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.

In countries like India or China, a Steve Jobs will never come around. The fundamentals aren't there - there's this feudal hierarchy.

I walk into a room, there's one or two black women. There aren't that many because the pipeline of talent just isn't there.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.