Quotes About Equality
What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.
~ Michael Lewis
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Going around the table, people took turns responding to a request to "talk about your experience of being a minority at RBC." When Brad's turn came he said, "To be honest, the only time I've ever felt like a minority is this exact moment. If you really want to encourage diversity you shouldn't make people feel like a minority." Then he left.
~ Michael Lewis
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RBC invited Brad along with a bunch of other nonwhite people to a meeting to discuss the issue. Going around the table, people took turns responding to a request to "talk about your experience of being a minority at RBC." When Brad's turn came he said, "To be honest, the only time I've ever felt like a minority is this exact moment. If you really want to encourage diversity you shouldn't make people feel like a minority.
~ Michael Lewis
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To be honest, the only time I've ever felt like a minority is this exact moment. If you really want to encourage diversity you shouldn't make people feel like a minority." Then he left. The group continued to meet without him. The
~ Michael Lewis
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the less the female presence, the less rational the approach to trading in the markets.
~ Michael Lewis
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If you are going to start a regulatory regime from scratch, you'd design it to protect middle-and lower-middle-income people, because the opportunity for them to get ripped off was so high. Instead what we had was a regime where those were the people who were protected the least.
~ Michael Lewis
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One list consisted of nineteen male names and twenty female names, the other of twenty female names and nineteen male names. The list that had more female names on it had more names of famous men, and the list that had more male names on it contained the names of more famous women. The unsuspecting Oregon students, having listened to a list, were then asked to judge if it contained the names of more men or more women.
~ Michael Lewis
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After seeing the diabolically clever data-based approach taken by the North Carolina legislature in writing laws to make it more difficult for African Americans to vote, the comedian John Oliver congratulated the legislators for having "Money-balled racism.
~ Michael Lewis
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Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.
~ Michael Lewis
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Clark couldn't stand the idea of anyone's working for him without having the chance to accumulate a bit of wealth.
~ Michael Lewis
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When he noticed that pro basketball stars were far less likely to be called for traveling than lesser players, he didn't just holler at the refs. He stopped watching basketball altogether; the injustice of it killed his interest in the sport.
~ Michael Lewis
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a quote from the ancient orator Isocrates: "Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.
~ Michael Lewis
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was drilled into us that success should not be measured in dollars; the truly successful person creates a family whose members are able to enjoy meaningful lives. And what gives life greater meaning is the opportunity to contribute to the community. Then Dad would lower his voice, as if to emphasize one final point: "No one in our society can have that unless everyone has a chance to achieve the American dream.
~ Michael Milken
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They offer you so much power. All that patriarchy! So tempting to take advantage of it.
~ Michael Moorcock
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Elric knew; that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance. This knowledge gave Elric his strength – his profound anger at injustice and inequality
~ Michael Moorcock
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I think I have always had a strong sense of justice, of fair play, of what is right and what is wrong.
~ Michael Morpurgo
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Working for world betterment would eventually do away with intolerance against those who are different from us. The need for personal status and elitism is the conflict because it is equated with happiness.
~ Michael Newton
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A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it
~ Michael Ondaatje
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There are those destroyed by unfairness and those who are not.
~ Michael Ondaatje
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But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love?
~ Michael Ondaatje
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Kimse zenginler kadar kötü olamaz.
~ Michael Ondaatje
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We are the real countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men.
~ Michael Ondaatje
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Being Heard Means Being Taken Seriously
~ Michael P. Nichols
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During the years of Stalin's reign, the Soviet nation made dramatic gains in literacy, industrial wages, health care, and women's rights.
~ Michael Parenti
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