equality Quotes

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.