Social Inequality Quotes

• All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

  James F. Cooper

  Medio, Gobierno, Política

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• Un sabio dijo que no hay mayor desigualdad que la igualdad de trato entre desiguales.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Sabio, Igualdad, Hombres

  Dennis contra Estados Unidos (opinión disidente) (1950)

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• What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Rights, Order, Liberty

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• Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth of equality can never become real. Far more than a hollow promise of future opportunity for their children, parents need jobs, income, and services. And children whose backgrounds have stunted their sense of the future need to be taught by example that they are good for more than they dared dream.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Sueño, Trabajo, Niños

  Kenneth Keniston, Consejo Carnegie de la Infancia (1977). "Todos nuestros hijos: la familia estadounidense bajo presión", Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

  Pope Francis

  Biblical, Voice, Giving

  "Pope Tells Philippines Leaders To End Corruption, Hear Cries Of The Poor" by Philip Pullella and Manuel Mogato, www.businessinsider.com. January 15, 2015.

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  Podemos tener democracia en este país, o podemos tener una gran riqueza concentrada en manos de unos pocos, pero no podemos tener ambas cosas.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Sabiduría, País, Poder

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• General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

  Michael Marmot

  Fall, Health, Class

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• The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and freedom in the comfort of their condos.

  Calvin Cheng

  Democracy, Comfort, Groups

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• Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

  Evita Perón

  Men, Generosity, Doe

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• Todas las desigualdades sociales que han dejado de ser consideradas convenientes, asumen el carácter no de simple falta de conveniencia, sino de injusticia, y parecen tan tiránicas, que la gente tiende a preguntarse cómo han podido ser toleradas; olvidando que ellos mismos quizás toleran otras desigualdades bajo una noción igualmente equivocada de conveniencia, cuya corrección haría que lo que aprueban pareciera tan monstruoso como lo que finalmente han aprendido a condenar.

  John Stuart Mill

  Carácter, Simple, Gente

  John Stuart Mill (2008). "On Liberty and Utilitarianism" (Sobre la libertad y el utilitarismo), p.234, Bantam Classics

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• America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?

  Golda Meir

  Country, Opportunity, Government

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, abril de 1973.

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• Esencial para la consecución de estos objetivos nacionales es el imperativo moral de garantizar la justicia social y el respeto de la dignidad humana. La gran tradición bíblica impone a todos los pueblos el deber de escuchar la voz de los pobres. Nos exhorta a romper los lazos de injusticia y opresión que dan lugar a desigualdades sociales flagrantes e incluso escandalosas. La reforma de las estructuras sociales que perpetúan la pobreza y la exclusión de los pobres exige, en primer lugar, una conversión de la mente y del corazón.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Biblical, Voice

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• The American people have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of high levels of consumption, increasing social inequality is not a society that can be part of the solution of the world's problems.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Good Life, Thinking, People

  Fuente: www.nytimes.com

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• When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.

  Vandana Shiva

  Native American, Issues, Roots

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom and the controversy surrounding [Mark] Twain's use of them and from my own passionate interest in civil rights, animal rights, and the right of Earth to survive humankind's reprehensible neglect of its stewardship.

  Norman Lock

  Animal, Rights, Stories

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Technology, California, Valleys

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• El consumo puede ser muy perjudicial para el mundo. No soy un gran defensor de la idea de que el consumo te hace moralmente malo, pero nuestros actos tienen consecuencias, y esas consecuencias son la degradación del medio ambiente y las enormes desigualdades sociales que hacen posible nuestro nivel de vida en Estados Unidos.

  Judith Levine

  Ideas, Medio Ambiente, Degradación

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• Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Powerful, Views, Long

  Patricia Hill Collins (1998). “Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice”, p.16, U of Minnesota Press

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• No veo mucho futuro para los americanos ... es un país en decadencia. Y tienen su problema racial, y el problema de las desigualdades sociales ... mis sentimientos contra el americanismo son sentimientos de odio y de profunda repugnancia ... todo en el comportamiento de la sociedad americana revela que está mitad judaizada, y la otra mitad negrificada. ¿Cómo se puede esperar que un Estado así se mantenga unido?

  Adolf Hitler

  País, Odio, Sentimientos

  "La charla de Hitler en la mesa". Die Bormann Vermerke: Transcripciones de las conversaciones de Hitler (5 th Of July de 1941 - 30 de noviembre de 1944), realizadas bajo la supervisión de Martin Bormann, 1953.

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