The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.
All patronage is perilous to men of real ability and merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to support.
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged; let us be loud; let us be bold.
There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.
Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.
The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.
The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.
Nobody in America lives at the survival level, Most people in the world would love to live the way poor Americans live.
Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
In Mexico, the people who are put in jail are all the wrong people. The good people are in jail.
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.
The weak are always at war with the stronger; that is the source of eternal hatreds.
Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.
If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Slavery was gone but its inequalities remained.
Property is organized robbery.
