Equality of Opportunity Quotes
Sometimes falsely attributed to Jordan B. Peterson (even though he credits Solzhenitsyn).
Actually originated by William Jennings Bryan in a 1900 campaign speech. See {640984} . The slogan became the name and first line of a poem and also a song. See {609937}
At the time English democracy was still suspect especially among the aristocracy.
Jinnah was a modern Islamist who saw the role of females in a modern context. He, like the Indian Hindu leaders were in a sense products of the West and Western government and education. He would be very surprised that in his Pakistan men can murder their female relatives who they believe have dishonored the family, or that women would not be educated in the Madrassas, or that authorities could sentence a female relative of a man deemed guilty of seduction to be gang raped, but that is what happens in modern Pakistan. Jinnah and many of the early leaders believed that their new government could modernize Islam but the control and influence went the other way. Pakistan became a religiously dominated autocracy rather than the democracy that Jinnah foresaw.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
This was one of the favorite quotations of Thomas Jefferson who copied it into his Commonplace Book.
Part of a larger quote about scientific freedom: see related quote.
Taft, very progressive on racial matters, was a little too optimistic. The “intelligent” Southerners were in the small minority. Only a week after Taft made this statement, Joseph Gorden, a Negro, was lynched outside Greenwood, Mississippi.
