November 29, 2025

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

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist and playwright, The Portable Curmudgeon, Jon Winokur, ed. (New York: 1987), p.91

Do you appreciate the resources and opportunities you have been given? Or did you make it all on your own?

True, which explains the need for “equity”, the acknowledgement that each person’s circumstances are different, and that in a democracy resources and opportunities must be provided to all in such a way that equal outcomes become possible, though not assured.