Huey Long Quotes

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table, but above all to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness and respect for every human being.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

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.

We’ve taken care not to penalize the wealthy but we have to redistribute some income …It is through reform that we can obtain fairness in the modern world…A reformed welfare state is the only way to obtain social justice.

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people can’t. But I don’t believe that the federal government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, when there is a moral factor involved.

If the goal is truly about equality, it has to be about a goal of saying everybody should end up in the same place.  And since we didn’t start in the same place.  Some folks might need more equitable distribution. 

Equity is the only acceptable goal

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

Fair Shares for All, is Labour's Call

Share and share alike, that's democracy.

Labour’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

Equality is equity.

If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.

Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.