Unequal Quotations

Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Stephanie Villalba lost her sex discrimination case. She lost her claim for costs. She has now lost her appeal on points of law relating to victimization and unequal pay. It is time for both of us to move on.

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.

Latin America still shows very high levels of poverty and the most unequal distribution of income in the world.

It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.

It is a forum in which developing countries have to struggle in an uneven and unequal contest with powerful vested interests in developed countries.

Typically, a couple will come in with unequal assets.

Typically, a couple will come in with unequal assets, ... They've lived together for 12 or 15 years and both of them have children from their first marriage and want their assets to go to kids (of the first marriage).

We need to have fair and full cooperation, not separate and unequal cooperation from the two administrations.

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.

Isn't the rationale, fundamentally, for democracy, that we're going to get people of unequal abilities to ultimately make very important decisions?

Strengthening the social contract in societies with pervasive poverty and highly unequal distribution of income will continue to challenge many Latin American governments for some time to come.

R.C. Hickman's work poignantly captures the social history of African Americans in a period of unequal treatment and dangerous conditions. TXU Energy is proud to celebrate Black History Month by showcasing this historical exhibit for our Dallas community.

Adopting unequal measures as the foundation for relations between countries and transforming ties between East and West into a class struggle between oppressors and oppressed has done nothing other than create armed peace, brutality, conflicts and terrorism,

Every observed change of place is caused by a motion of either the observed object or the observer or, of course, by an unequal displacement of each.

a pattern of unequal treatment in the administration of a wide range of public services, programs, and activities, including the penal system, public education, and voting.

Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources.

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me

We will never go back to an unfair system of unequal schools, ... We can do it and we will do it.

We may examine, indeed, but we never can decide, because our faculties are unequal to the subject: we see a little, and form an opinion; we see more, and change it