If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.
If we can spend the money to put a man on the moon, we ought to be able to find the funds to put a man on his feet.
…it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.
At the time, theft was a capital offense in England.
I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.
I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.
If we arrive at a saner world in which the maximum human potential is cultivated in every person, our descendants will not understand why our world produced only one Louis Pasteur, one Edison, one Tesla, or one Salk, and why great achievements in our age were the products of a relative few.
As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.
If we truly understand, remember, and love the people of Indonesia, let us accept this principle of social justice, that is, not only political equality, but we must create equality in the economic field, too, which means the best possible well-being.
We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.
Adults need to live in a society that is economically social, governmentally democratic, and culturally free.
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.
The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
As minister for business and minister for women and equalities, it is clear to me that promoting equality of opportunity simply makes good business sense.
Ask an American about human rights and he'll say: freedom of speech. Ask an African woman about human rights and she'll say: the right to feed her children.
