#inequality

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question. ↗

— David Korten

#give #human #human rights #increasing #inequality

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause. ↗

— Theresa May

#complex #inequality #legal #problem #solve

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#child #citizen #controlling #existence #government

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead. ↗

— Núria Añó

#feminism #freedom #gender #gender-inequality #hypocrisy

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#education #empowerment #inequality #men #women

He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow." It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#education #inequality #social-issues #education

Bei den Hochgestellten gilt das Reden vom Essen als niedrig. Das kommt: sie haben schon gegessen. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#inequality #poor #rich #equality

As inequality has grown, as its negative consequences have become harder and harder to ignore, our response has been to put more and more weight on the educational system, to look to school reform as the means of closing the 'achievement gap' and of guaranteeing the increasingly illusory promise of equal opportunity. We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task. ↗

— Christopher L. Hayes

#inequality #education

The first commendment of hte post 1970s meritocracy can be sumed up as follows: "Thou shall provide equality of opportunity to all, regardless of race, gender, or sexual oritentation, but worry not about equality of outcomes." But what we've seen time and time again is that the two aren't so neatly separated. If you don't concern yourself at all with equality fo outcomes, you will, over time, produce a system with horrendous inequality of opportunity. This is the paradox of meritocracy: It can only truly come to flower in a society that starts out with a relatively high degree of equality. So if you want meritocracy, work for equality. Because it is only in a society which values equality of actual outcomes, one that promotes the commonweal and social solidarity, that equal opportunity and earned mobility can flourish. ↗

— Christopher L. Hayes

#inequality #meritocracy #social-solidarity #equality

blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books. ↗

— Cordelia Fine

#gender-equality #gender-inequality #gender-stereotypes #equality