Top 50 Quotes About Inequity

#1. The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE.

Helene D. Gayle

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#2. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

Bill Gates

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#3. And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Peter Tosh

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#4. I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Alexander Theroux

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#5. In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

Anthony Bourdain

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#6. When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

Robert D Bullard

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#7. Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So there's a little inequity there about knowledge.

Mike DeWine

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#8. The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

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#9. The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

Frans De Waal

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#10. I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile.
[Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.]

Pope Gregory VII

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#11. I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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#12. All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.

Paolo Bacigalupi

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#13. Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.

Paulo Coelho

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#14. Whether out of inertia or selfishness, whether out of fear or a simple lack of moral imagination, we so often spend our lives as if in a fog, accepting injustice, rationalizing inequity, tolerating the intolerable

Barack Obama

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#15. I firmly believe that the inequity [in society] is enormous. The people have the feeling that you are allowed to do anything if you are rich. But if you're poor, you have to pay. We [Europeans] have to counter this.

Martin Schulz

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#16. Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

Carson Kressley

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#17. The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.

Lynn Schusterman

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#18. There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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#19. In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.

Charles M. Blow

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#20. There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

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#21. Black New Yorkers' distressing personal accounts of poverty and unemployment, inadequate housing, white supremacy and state-sanctioned violence politicized St. Clair, leading her to become one of New York's staunchest yet most unlikely voices against urban inequity.

LaShawn Harris

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#22. Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.

Wendy Kopp

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#23. Makers?" said Toby. Jaysir nodded.

"We're not loners, you know. There just weren't any on Wallop. We love to get together, we just refuse to engage in social relations that are based on material inequity.

Karl Schroeder

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#24. Then they could discuss the possibilities of social inequity, the way your socks always fall down when you're wearing rubber boots, and the importance of being earnest.

Stephen King

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#25. People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

Kate Zambreno

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#26. It has been said that from war comes exhaustion, from exhaustion comes peace, from peace comes cooperation, from cooperation comes prosperity, from prosperity comes complacency, from complacency comes inequity, from inequity comes war.

Richard L. Muehlberg

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#27. As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand from individual classrooms, schools, and cities that this is an issue that can be solved.

Wendy Kopp

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#28. Income inequity has to be addressed.

Joe Biden

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#29. The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

Katherine Dunn

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#30. Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity

Janet Robertson

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#31. Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity

Bill Gates

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#32. I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity.

Rosa Clemente

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#33. I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

Jasmine Guy

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#34. On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.

Wendy Kopp

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#35. I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class ... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

Nick McDonell

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#36. In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

Paul Farmer

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#37. Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

PZ Myers

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#38. So long as people give priority to material values, then injustice, inequity, intolerance, and greed - all the outward manifestations of neglect of our inner values - will persist.

Dalai Lama XIV

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#39. America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

Nicholas Kristof

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#40. The impact of all this persistent inequity on the economic (in)stability of unmarried women is profound.

Rebecca Traister

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#41. When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

Tim Wise

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#42. Intimate justice touches on ideas of gender inequity, violence, bodily integrity, physical and mental health. I don't expect a 15-year-old girl to have that figured out; it's hard enough to have it figured out when you're 50.

Peggy Orenstein

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#43. Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#44. There is no achievement gap at birth.

Lisa Delpit

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#45. The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

Alice Walker

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#46. Education should not be a competition resulting in winners and losers. Education should be a competition against ignorance, and all should be encouraged to win.

K.A. Brill

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#47. We aren't encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

Raquel Cepeda

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#48. Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all...

Josh Burggraf

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#49. We hold demonstrations and civil wars when inequities are discovered.

Catherynne M Valente

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#50. Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

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