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- Nov 07, 2020
Disproportionately Quotes
Lines on burdens that fall unevenly.
This page gathers quotes that describe unequal impact, from forced labor's toll on vulnerable workers and Children to policing practices that critics say target certain neighborhoods more than others.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Indian and Alaska Native people suffer from unacceptable and disproportionately high levels of violence, which can have lasting impacts on families and communities.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think dementia is the major healthcare threat to our economy and our security. It's a ticking time bomb - we have a whole generation of baby boomers that are going to age, many progressing to get Alzheimer's - which disproportionately affects women and minorities.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a massive source of revenue.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have disproportionately used it to engage in cynical and anti-democratic obstructionism whenever they find themselves in the minority.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's soldiery, like its war dead, comes disproportionately from its southern states and from its aspiring poor - both white and black.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law.
- Human Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have all these new police officers and resource officers coming into schools, what I'm worried is going to happen is we're going to increase the school-to-prison pipeline, which disproportionately affects students of color and lower social status.
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- Nov 07, 2020