When people ask, "Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?" - my answer is not an answer most people get: It's because their power developed from laws that enriched them.
Ralph Nader[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.
Ralph NaderPower concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.
Ralph NaderA citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.
Ralph Nader