#port

Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#equity #opportunity #social-justice #change

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#also #anyone #art #i #living

That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#importance-of-interconnectedness #relationships #change

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#anger #being #brigade #even #fought

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#family #finally #got #i #jobs

When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help. ↗

— Paul Allen

#believe #comes #doing #goal #help

Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply better suited than girls. It’s a fact of nature that no one can change. I’m sorry, but maybe you can play next time when it’s less crucial. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#sports #sweet-valley #change

Change is the end of something you know and the beginning of something else that you don't know. Something new that holds opportunities. ↗

— Kholoud Yasser

#life #new #opportunities #change

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#dangerous #degree #error #more #proportion

... she suddenly looks different to Olympia, physically different, as though a portrait has been alterred. And Olympia thinks that possibly such adjustments might have to be made for everyone she knows. Upon meeting a person, a sketch is formed, and for the life of the relationship, however intimate or not, a portrait is painted, with oils or pastels or with black ink or with watercolor, and only at a persons's death can the portraits be considered finished. Perhaps not even at the person's death. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#death