Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

In order to have economic democracy you have to have equal access to property.

Democracy must knock the rough edges off capitalism so that capitalism is safe for everyone and not just the big boys.

Democracy really depends not only on not just having a middle class but having wealth distributed relatively evenly across the society so that people buy into the legitimacy of the system

Capitalism is very undemocratic. Capitalism gives you power according to your wealth while democracy gives you power according to your existence.

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough.

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.

Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money you could get health care, education, look after yourself when you were old, and what democracy did was to give the poor the vote and it moved power from the marketplace to the polling station, from the wallet...to the ballot.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.

People aren't happy unless they buy stuff, and that's because we have become this industrialized nation.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

No two things are equal. No two people are equal. Nobody can guarantee equal outcomes unless everybody's poor.

The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.

The reason I like socialism is that it's kind of enforced Christianity. It's basically very Christian, in the sense of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." These people have nothing, so you have to share.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies. And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.