Mark Sanford Quotes

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration.

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

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

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

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

The social order we have built recognizes no exploitation of man by man. In our country there are no rich people to live at the expense of the workers and peasants. Just as there are no poor people living on the charity of others.

Our goal is a classless society.

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.

Where else can a guy like me make it? Blind and poor---only in America.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

The capacity of children to become self-sufficient and successful adults is compromised not only by monetary poverty, but by poverty of experience, influence, and expectation

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.

a kid should have an equal shot at a good life in our city, regardless of what part of town they happen to be born in.

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.

The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as equality of opportunity but about equality itself.

That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.