Modern Inequality Quotes

#1. Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality.

Christina Engela

#2. You know how you feel when you meet someone and they just give you the impression they're living on this entirely different planet from everyone else? That's sort of how I felt when I met you.

Courtney Summers

#3. Let nothing human be foreign to me

Kate Christensen

#4. As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

Al Sharpton

#5. Fee-uck, man. This game is still on. I get that sixty-two yet. I get his ass and whip it into shape. Damnright. I get that shitpiss sixty-two and beat his black ass into the ground."
"He's white," I said.
"I know he's white. They're all white. Everybody's white. Black fucks.

Don DeLillo

#6. Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#7. Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

Doris Lessing

#8. I've played the powerless in too many dark scenes. I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I just want some say in between

Ani DiFranco

#9. Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#10. Live your day and live it well. It's yours whether you want it or not.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

Rem Koolhaas

#12. I would advise him that is actually melancholy not to read this tract of Symptoms, lest he disquiet or make himself for a time worse, and more melancholy than he was before.

Robert Burton

#13. I've decided that the out-of-five-stars rating system is kind of stupid and useless and reductive, so I won't be doing that anymore. When I have the time and the inclination, I'll post a comment or two on books I've completed.

Jamie Fitzpatrick

#14. Some people go nowhere, even into disputes, without a soundtrack.

Ian McEwan

#15. For a moment, in his arms, with my mind so close to his heart, I listen to the wind pick up and think it just might lift us off our feet and take us with it.

Jandy Nelson

#16. As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge to society is not only to provide help and care where these are needed but also to offer the opportunity to contribute and care for others [p. 8]

Mary Catherine Bateson

#17. Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

Ivor Brown