The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' qualities and skills. There is no constitutional right to play ball. All there is a right to compete for it on equal terms.
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.
To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.
We are all alike, on the inside.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.
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