Daniel De Leon Quotes

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

Distribution of the wealth of the world is something for which no one sees a practical solution

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

Freedom breeds inequality.

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.

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

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

Once the tentacles of redistributionism wrap themselves tightly around every part of the economy - and around our psyches - they can never be unwound.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

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

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.