Laura Wade Quotes

Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist

No nation can be freer than its most oppressed, richer than its poorest, wiser than its most ignorant.

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

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.

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

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.

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

Equality of opportunity as we have known it no longer exists… we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already”

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

There should be no differentiation amongst the people. All should be treated as equals. On this basis the Brahmin must give up his false prestige. In the interest of the society. I say that the blind beliefs should be given up

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

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.

We have a lot of societal problems that we have to fix in the 1990s.

In the area of economic justice, we still have a long way to go. We have too many people who are discriminated against just because they happen to be black or they happen to be a woman or some other minority.