Jim Goad Quotes

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

Equity is the only acceptable goal

I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

Equality is truly sweet.

That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

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.

We seek ... not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and as a result.

establish and maintain equal opportunity and industrial justice.

Equality is equity.

I really believe in being egalitarian.

As commissioner, I will attempt to see that no man is judged by the irrational criteria of race, religion, or national origin. And I assure you, I use the word 'man' in the generic sense, for I mean to see that the principle of nondiscrimination becomes a reality for women as well.

We do not have the right to discriminate against people.

If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.

We've got to be able to get to a point where we represent everybody equally.

I want to be crystal clear that everyone has an equal stake in our society and in the future of our country. That is what I believe, and it is what I have always believed.

A new model of business and economic development must ensure everybody's sons and daughters are treated as we would expect for our own.