Quotes About Equality

The notion that "the best and the brightest" are better at governing than their less-credentialed fellow citizens is a myth born of meritocratic hubris.

Los liberales igualitarios que defienden el Estado del bienestar sobre la base del igualitarismo de la suerte se ven condenados, casi inevitablemente, a recurrir a una retórica de la victimización que describe a los perceptores de ayudas como individuos sin agencia, incapaces de actuar de forma responsable.

Tienen la sensación de que ellos son más víctimas de discriminación que las mujeres o las minorías raciales y se sienten oprimidos por las exigencias del discurso público de lo «políticamente correcto».

Tenemos que preguntarnos si la solución a nuestro inflamable panorama político es llevar una vida más fiel al principio del mérito o si, por el contrario, debemos encontrarla en la búsqueda de un bien común más allá de tanta clasificación y tanto afán de éxito.

maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and promoting virtue. Each of these ideas points to a different way of thinking about justice.

Prejudice is ignorance.

There is striking evidence—now gathered and acknowledged by the OECD and IMF—that economies with more equal distributions of income and wealth have stronger and more stable economic growth than those with greater inequality.56 Redistributive policies which reduce inequality are found to have in general a positive impact on growth.57

If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of fairness… I expect it will come from the artists. – Karl Paulnack, 2004

I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Many rich men don't allow their wives to come to their office. Many women don't know what their husbands do.

The ideals of the Enlightenment eventually led to civic emancipation, and however ferocious the opposition, the basic provision for civic equality between Jews and non-Jews would now appear to be largely uncontroversial, and in any case inalterable. To an extraordinary degree, modern Jews today now participate (or, at least, are legally and culturally permitted to participate) in the full range of social and intellectual life in the West.

The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. 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.

In 1961, the National Football League's owners voted to sign a national television contract with CBS, and share the revenues from that deal equally among all of its teams, regardless of market size or national appeal. This was important at the time, when the individual team television revenues were wildly disparate and made up a sizable portion of a team's income. It would become crucial in the decades ahead, when television exploded into the largest source of revenue in professional football.

Thomas Sowell once wrote, "Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

The black flag comes in many colors.

f]emales are very interested in colonizing high-value male spaces,

I was reminded of the words of Harlem renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston: "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company

For the evangelical left, every Facebook update can be a personal march on Selma.

To criticise inequality and to desire equality is not, as is sometimes suggested, to cherish the romantic illusion that men are equal in character and intelligence. It is to hold that, while their natural endowments differ profoundly, it is the mark of a civilised society to aim at eliminating such inequalities as have their source not in individual differences but in (social) organisation. R. H. Tawney1

Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your real friend. John Robert can be your real little friend.

È un errore madornale credere che i pettegolezzi interessino più alle donne che agli uomini.