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Quote by David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

“Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.”

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David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel, was a prominent British politician. Born on July 8, 1922, and passing away on October 7, 2014, he held several significant government positions during his career and had a lasting impact on British politics and society. more

“The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.”

“The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.”

Doe Earth Imagination Levels Principles Equality Flight Egalitarianism

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“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.”

Beautiful Generations Errors Equality Trauma Block Sixty Efficiency Sentimental Delay My Generation Egalitarianism

Author:Camille Paglia

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