Eric Schneiderman Quotes

There's a two-tier justice system. And anyone who denies it is either naive or in denial. This is what the reality of America is. If you have certain privileges, if you're from a certain socioeconomic status, you have a certain skin color, the odds are in your favor.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

The elites benefit from affirmative action programs even when those programs are designed to help the masses.

The commission of crime is not randomly or evenly distributed in our society. If you wanted to remove everything correlated with race, you couldn’t use anything.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.

The same way I'm not afraid of calling out systemic discrimination, I'm also not afraid of calling out inequality and the fact that inequality is growing in society and that affects everybody, regardless of race.

The privileged have become more wealthy, while people from disadvantaged backgrounds have had their opportunities to get on and move up closed off. That's the Tory way.

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it for less.

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.