The political leader whose official power depends upon popular confidence may betray the trust.

The corporation employing thousands of men and supplying millions of people with some necessary service or commodity may reduce the cost of production only for its own profit.

The state may use its great authority chiefly for the benefit of special interests.

The advocate of equal rights is preoccupied by these opportunities for the abusive exercise of power, because from his point of view rights exercised in the interest of inequality have ceased to be righteous.

He distrusts those forms of individual and associated activity which give any individual or association substantial advantages over their associates.
He becomes suspicious of any kind of individual and social distinction with the nature and effects of which he is not completely familiar.
A democracy of equal rights may tend to encourage certain expressions of individual liberty; but they are few in number and limited in scope.