Quotes about Inequity

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically. Votes: 4

Income inequity has to be addressed. Votes: 2

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone. Votes: 2

Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work. Votes: 0

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason. Votes: 0

Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity Votes: 0

I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity. Votes: 0

There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed. Votes: 0

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. Votes: 0

Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world. Votes: 0

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity. Votes: 0

I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.] Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think the biggest single issue is income inequity and what this is doing to the good old "American dream." This and corporatism - this delusional idea that "shareholder value" outweighs everything else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0