Lauren Mayberry Quotes

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

I've always believed there are inequities in our country.

Our economic system has enabled companies and individuals to use their power and influence to capture and retain an ever-increasing share of the benefits of economic growth while the benefits for the poorest in society have shrunk.

A human born somewhere in this world doesn't have the same chances as another one born in Paris, England, or the U.S. We don't have the same chances at the beginning.

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 laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

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.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

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

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

Tackling inequality isn’t easy. It never has been and it never will be.