Toribio Esquivel Obregon Quotes

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

The gap between aspiration and reality could hardly be wider. Today, the United States has less equality of opportunity than almost any other advanced industrial country. Study after study has exposed the myth that America is a land of opportunity. This is especially tragic: While Americans may differ on the desirability of equality of outcomes, there is near-universal consensus that inequality of opportunity is indefensible.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

I am not arguing for a utopian society; equal opportunity for all, though ideal, is unrealistic.

Meritocracy is a system of segregation.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

It has often been said, that there is but one rank of men in America… we have no artificial distinctions of men into noblemen and commoners among us, but it ought to be remarked, that superior degrees of industry and capacity, and above all, commerce, have introduced inequality of property among us, and these have introduced natural distinctions of rank in Pennsylvania, as certain and general as the artificial distinctions of men in Europe. This will ever be the case while commerce exists in this country.

India’s great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in leveled the injurious distinctions of caste

Men whose mothers had no formal education are inclined to oppose the notions of granting women equal political rights and equal employment opportunities. Quite the opposite is true of men whose mothers attended a university.

Our democracy may have an aristocracy of talent, as Jefferson said – which is fine – but we don’t want everyone else to be left out. Something like that seems to be happening, though.

There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents;... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy.

The prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit.

I am no leveller; I look upon an artificial equality as equally pernicious with a factitious aristocracy; both depressing the energies and checking the enterprise of a nation.

Income inequality is not a bad thing. Income inequality is a good thing.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.