John Dewey Quotes

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Equal Rights for All, Special Privileges for None.

Equal Rights

Equal doesn't mean identical.

What is good enough for Scotland is good enough for England. Fairness demands no less.

I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.

I want to make things equal.

Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.