Quotes About Equality

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.

There is no delete button for bigotry.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

A great mind must be androgynous.