Ron DeSantis Quotes

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

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

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

And Justice for Some

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

One Law for the Lion and the Ox is oppression.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

He that despises his neighbor's happiness because he wears a worsted cap or a leather apron, he that struts immeasurably above the lower size of the people, and pretends to adjust the rights of the men by the distinctions of fortune

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

I did not allow the mighty to distress the common peasant or the poverty-stricken widow.