Huey Long Quotes

Every man has a right to bread.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.

Equality implies individuality.

When the fruits of civilization, created by all, are enjoyed in common by all, then civilization is secure. Not till then.

Every Man a King, Every Man a King; For you can be a millionaire; There's Something belonging to others; There's enough for all people to share.

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will—are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

Our America is an America where human needs come before human greed.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

We want a Colorado that works for everybody.

I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.

Especially in a rich nation, there is absolutely no reason why everyone couldn't and shouldn't have a life of dignity.

Creating wealth is not an end in itself. It needs to be shared by all.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.