#unequal

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. ↗

— David Simon

#americas #being #beings #cultural #day

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. ↗

— Earl Warren

#facilities #inherently #separate #unequal

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#ago #separate #today #unequal #will

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#enough #forever #itself #me #measure

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend. ↗

— Mark McCormack

#being #business #equal #friend #people

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#equal #language #unequal #use #wrong

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#contrary #envy #free #free markets #incomes

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. ↗

— Will Durant

#declaration #independence #make #nature #never

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#completely #condition #distribution #industrial #industrial organization

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#away #characteristics #communities #daughter #globally