The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I'm not saying at all that only disabled actors should get disabled roles, because that's equally prejudiced and equally stifling. But I… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside]… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
We must remember that although we come from different backgrounds and ideologies, we're all part of this great experiment in self-governance. We're… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
Roosevelt's New Deal regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted national infrastructure on the principle that the role of government was not… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Equity means equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity. It is the very DNA of Marxism and everything bad flows from it,… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come. ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in… — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“I stand for the square deal," Roosevelt said. "But when I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“One of the foundations of our American civilization is equality of opportunity, which presupposes the right of each man to enjoy the… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
“Irony and cynicism were just what the U.S. hypocrisy of the fifties and sixties called for. That’s what made the early postmodernists… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image