Unequal Burden Quotes

There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

42% of today’s army enlistees are ethnic or racial minorities. In the general population in the 18 to 24 year old age cohort, nearly 50% of the people…have had some exposure to college education. In that same age cohort in the U.S. military today…the percentage of people who’ve had some kind of exposure to college education is 6.5%. So the vast majority of our society…has, in effect, hired some of the least disadvantaged of their fellow citizens to conduct some of our most dangerous business. I think that is an unstable situation, and one that does threaten, in the long run, the health of our democracy.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expense of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.