There can be no equality or opportunity

“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”

— Woodrow Wilson

Author: Woodrow Wilson
Category: equality
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It is a strange fact that freedom

“It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.”

— Thomas Mann

Author: Thomas Mann
Category: equality
Tags: equality, Thomas Mann