“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”
Source: Why Marx Was Right
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Terry Eagleton57
British writer, academic and educator 1943Related quotes
“Everyone who is already here must be treated as equal before the law.”
Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
Interview with London Weekend Television's Man in the News (18 January 1970), quoted in The Times (19 January 1970), p. 1
Leader of the Opposition
Joshua Greene (1974) American psychologist
Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (2013), p. 170
Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) Polish philosopher and sociologist
[paraphrasing the view of Max Scheler], p. 25.
The Art of Life (2008)
“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher
Quoted in The Observer September 13, 1987.
Kim Peek (1951–2009) American savant, model for the protagonist of the film "Rain Man"
Wisconsin Medical Society http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/kimpeek.cfm
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind — and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.
1960, Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
“I don't have prejudice, I hate everyone equally.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Attributed in The Mammoth Book of Jokes (2006) edited by Geoff Tibbals; no earlier citation yet located.
Disputed