Louisa May Alcott Quotes

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

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

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Germany is not a fair country. Millions of people believe that things aren't fair in this country. Company profits and bonus payments have increased at the same rate as precarious employment situations.

I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

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

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

I don't like being treated differently.

Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.