2 Sided T-Shirt Front: “Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism” ~ Barry Goldwater, 1908-1998 Back: des•pot•ism (des'-puh-tiz-uhm) - noun 1. dominance through threat of punishment and violence [syn: absolutism, tyranny, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, Stalinism] 2. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)