John Edwards Quotes

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

We cannot rebuild the American Dream here at home by catering to the voices of the privileged and powerful.

I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

As a white man who has had privileges that others could not depend on or take for granted, I've clearly had advantages over the course of my life.

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.