Stephen Harper Quotes

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

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.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

Inequality is on the rise.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

There are many things in life that are not fair …. I don’t believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

The rights of the minority must be protected and the rich are always fewer in number than the poor.

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.

If there is a class war—and there is—it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

Tackling inequality isn’t easy. It never has been and it never will be.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

It has become impossible to deny or obscure the great chasm . . . between an elite that seizes modernity’s choicest fruits while disdaining older truths and uprooted masses, who, on finding themselves cheated of the same fruits, recoil into cultural supremacism, populism and rancorous brutality.

There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.