Unequal Access to Resources Quotes

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Integration in the fields of education, housing, transportation and public accommodations will be of limited extent and duration so long as fundamental economic inequality along racial lines persist.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you thought that the world was flat.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

Subordinate classes have usually pushed for democracy, dominant classes nearly always have resisted it.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

Poverty is sexist.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false, in the last analysis they rest on force.

When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity of the West critically. It wasn't really Heaven.

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that toffs are 'out of touch' is more modern and fashionable than assuming they have a 'natural fitness for government,' but it's no fairer.

We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have worked harder, we say. They should have made better decisions. This message is especially present in communities of color.

American schools are disturbingly racially segregated--period.

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

My family was actually homeless for several years when I was a kid. It's a bit unusual for a member of Congress.

Those heartaches, those cries in your life that you go through, I thought that every kid goes through them. I knew I didn't have much, but I didn't know there was another side out there. I thought one present for Christmas was the way it is.

The whole ridiculousness of black Hollywood - there is no black Hollywood. It's every man for himself.