#inequality

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#dishonesty #evil #gender #inequality #men

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

#generations #inequality #inequity #opportunity #united-states

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#coordination #does #downside #equality #get

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#course #flowery #give #hunger #inequality

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#dear #heart #inequality #itself #liberty

There is also the basic inequality of being born either with a natural talent or without one. Clever or stupid. No matter how much you try to argue against it, Dora, we are not born equal. All we can ever strive for is the equality of opportunity for those who have the ability to make the most of it. ↗

— Sally Wentworth

#inequality #socialism #equality

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#greater #inequality #man #said #than