#inequality

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy

[W]hat reasoning is this, to criticize an innocent majority who seldom make a slip, for a single act? This is not right. Why can't blame be borne individually for individual guilt? ... But for the love of Christ, those of you with some sense, do not blame the innocent without cause. For if, every time you see one man doing wrong, you're going to accuse all men likewise, it won't take long in any one day before you'll be saying that all men ought to be hung. If one man is a rogue, are all men too? No, there's no logic in that; you know what's true. Were a man hung or dismembered for theft, and they proposed to dish up the same treatment to you, you wouldn't consider it legal. You would look quite unamused, and take the liberty of bidding goodbye to all who pronounced that sort of judmgent. Think of others as you would have them think of you ... Let each bear guilt individually as is only right -- and as you'd wish to be upheld in your own case if you were innocent. ↗

— Anonymous

#blame #condemnation #conduct #expectations #guilt

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#balance #before #britain #cards #case

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#causes #crash #dominant #economic #greatest

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#exploitation #inequality #property #strong #weak

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#current #debate #deprive #desperately #educational

Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#debatable #either #gay #inequality #issue

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead. ↗

— Núria Añó

#feminism #freedom #gender #gender-inequality #hypocrisy

All men are created Equal. Some just have more Splenda. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#equality #funny #humanity #humor #inequality

When the gap between the rich and the poor is so huge that you can’t help pointing it out – that’s when you risk being labeled a pervert. ↗