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— Thomas Piketty"Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck."
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The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.
— Whitney M. Young
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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
— Ida Tarbell
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