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Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to. -- Bobby Scott
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done. -- Joan Robinson
Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war. -- Paul Craig Roberts
Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power. -- Gloria Steinem
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. -- Earl Warren
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. -- Jonathan Kozol
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. -- Aristotle
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. -- Will Durant
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. -- Henry George
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend. -- Mark McCormack
There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it. -- Richard Flanagan
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. -- Hillary Clinton
Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal. -- David Ricardo
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal. -- Jonathan Kozol
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. -- Aaron Swartz
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? -- Walt Whitman
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. -- Niger Innis
People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else. -- Gloria Allred
I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal. -- Bill Cosby
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. -- Leland Stanford
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. -- Marcus Aurelius
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. -- Pico Iyer
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. -- Lael Brainard
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. -- Paul Dirac
There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. -- David Simon
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. -- William J. Clinton
The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
All men are created unequal. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing is so unequal as equality. -- Pliny the Elder
Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society. -- Owen Jones
It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions. -- Peter Akinola
Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds -- Charles I of England
There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals. -- Aristotle
Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice. -- Jerry Brown
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. -- David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel
The problem with this world is the unequal distribution of capitalism. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The problem with this world is the unequal distribution of capitalism. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to. -- Adam Phillips
Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things. -- Charles James Fox
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. -- Thomas Jefferson
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances. -- Jeremy Collier
Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals. -- Ted Malloch
When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal. -- James Cook
Left-wing thinking is that difference means unequal; therefore, all difference must be denied -- Dennis Prager
Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal. -- Otto Kerner, Jr.
To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires. -- John Arbuthnot
Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women. -- Warren Farrell
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. -- Hugh Blair
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. -- Jared Diamond
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings. -- William Inge
An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains. -- Edmund Phelps
The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it. -- Aleister Crowley
Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources. -- Seth Priebatsch
My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures. -- Starhawk
The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property. -- James Madison
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. -- James Anthony Froude
...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. -- Shulamith Firestone
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much -- Francis Bacon, Sr.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. -- Francis Bacon
Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance. -- Arnold Gingrich
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. -- Thomas Jefferson
Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man. -- Marcus Aurelius
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it. -- James Madison
The world's biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn't have food shortages. -- Rush Limbaugh
She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. -- Lorrie Moore
Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers? -- Charles Du Bos
Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth. -- Richard D. Wolff
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. -- Fanny Burney
For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place. -- Morgan Freeman
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements. -- Rex Stout
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. -- Ambrose Bierce
From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results. -- James Madison
Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable. -- Don Tapscott
The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship. -- Simone Weil
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species. -- James Madison
Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world. -- Alison Assiter
Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality. -- Kedar Joshi
Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another. -- Cloris Leachman
The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal. -- Jane Mayer
America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish. -- Robert Reich
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers. -- Thomas Jefferson
The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant. -- Edward Snowden
Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance. -- Archimedes
Every man is our brother, and every man's burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal. -- Whitney M. Young
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People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community. -- Pope Leo XIII
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.' -- Jonathan Kozol
Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential. -- Shannon L. Alder
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling. -- Ebenezer Elliott
Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much. -- Laura Huxley
At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis. -- Richard Bentall
If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself. -- Tony Judt
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible. -- Thomas Sowell
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride. -- Arthur C. Brooks
I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way. -- Eddi Reader
It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights." -- Richard M. Nixon
I talked to a junior in college, and she was fed up. She said, "I'm not doing other girls any favours by faking orgasms and not calling out guys when we're having unequal experiences." -- Peggy Orenstein
When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour towards the non-western world: relations were simply too unequal. -- Martin Jacques
Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you. -- bell hooks
Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime. -- Flora Tristan

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