“National unity cannot be enforced through fear. It is cultivated through fairness, inclusion, and equal opportunity. Cohesion emerges when citizens feel protected, not threatened, by the state.”
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Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader
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“When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.”
Ubi explorari vera non possunt, falsa per metum augentur.
Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian
IV, 10, 10.
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“Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results. First, every man will have a fair chance to make of himself all that in him lies; to reach the highest point to which his capacities, unassisted by special privilege of his own and unhampered by the special privilege of others, can carry him, and to get for himself and his family substantially what he has earned. Second, equality of opportunity means that the commonwealth will get from every citizen the highest service of which he is capable. No man who carries the burden of the special privileges of another can give to the commonwealth that service to which it is fairly entitled.
“Opportunities will be equal. The procedures will be fair. The result will be just.”
Moon Jae-in (1953) President of South Korea
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“Opportunities will be equal. The procedures will be fair. The result will be just.”
Moon Jae-in (1953) President of South Korea
Inaugural address of the president of South Korea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOYaWLddRbU&feature=youtu.be&t=9m21s (2017)
Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
2010s, Commencement speech for Oberlin College Prep graduates (2015)
Context: ... Generation after generation, this country has become more equal, more inclusive, more fair, more free. My life and so many of your lives are a testament of that truth. But that has only happened because folks like all of you left their comfort zones and made their voices heard.
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