It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.
We live in a world where equality is pretty important.
Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing.
Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this, too, right along side of him.
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.
I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.