Quotes About Equality

LeCedrick Earle was maybe an inch shorter than me, with dark glossy skin and a shaved head. He was wearing a prison-issue orange jumpsuit and Keds. I said, "That's right. I work for an attorney named Jonathan Green.

They grew up in an era when public education and community support for kids from all backgrounds managed to boost a significant number of people up the ladder—in Bend, Beverly Hills, New York, Port Clinton, and even South Central LA. Those supportive institutions, public and private, no longer serve poorer kids so well.

investment in poor kids raises the rate of growth for everyone, at the same time leveling the playing field in favor of poor kids.

inequality of opportunity slows growth by keeping disadvantaged potential workers from developing their full capacity.

we tend not to begrudge others their success or care how high the socioeconomic ladder is, assuming that everyone has an equal chance to climb it, given equal merit and energy.

These two types of equality are obviously related, because the distribution of income in one generation may affect the distribution of opportunity in the next generation—but they are not the same thing.

Most fundamentally, school systems need to put higher quality teachers in poor schools under conditions in which they can actually teach and not just keep order.

Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

A man must partly give up being a man With women-folk.

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same...

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

In knowing yourself, you accept your limits. You are simply one person among many in the world, and not naturally superior to anyone.

I don't know where you'd find such a magazine. ~ on the stipulations set by a benefactor to the Harvard Advocate that the staff contain no Jews, homosexuals, or drunks

very much like us in every important way and

I learned, then, beyond question, that if all the property in the world were distributed, and an equal share given to everyone, the bulk of mankind would soon be destitute, and a few would have everything.

Why can't they figure it out that women take more time and need more stalls? You know why, he said. Because men are the ones who design these things, that's why.

Most Americans don't know that military coups swept over half the country, with the acquiescence of the federal government. But that is what happened. The legitimate governments of southern states and cities were overthrown by force, by white supremacist paramilitary organizations. Black people and Republicans were disenfranchised and massacred. They call it the Redemption of the South, and what it means is we turn away from the idea of equality.

But we do go forward. Inspired, once again, by military service and a war against a racist enemy—this time Nazi Germany—Black Americans press their calls for equality. The Supreme Court invalidates government racial segregation, in public schools and elsewhere.

Every citizen should 'remain free in his religion, and no man be molested or questioned on the subject of Divine worship'.