Inequality of Representation Quotes

What I'm saying is that government doesn't work for people. There is a perception of it and a reality of it.

The majority of the men in the State [Virginia] who pay and fight for its support, are unrepresented in the legislature, the roll of freeholders entitled to vote not including generally the half of those on the role of the militia, or of the taxgatherers.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative.

I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion.

For Americans the doctrine of universal equality is a doctrine of death …

Women's ideas of themselves had changed, but the world's idea of women, somehow, had not. The cognitive dissonance was palpable at all times.

I think with election conducted with pick and choose policy, injustice has been done to Punjab and Punjabiyat.

Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.