Equity Liberty Progress

The greatest weakness of our current political parties is that they assume that society can make real progress without building it on a foundation of equity and liberty.

Progress

Striving for progress is important, but we need to remember that progress is a measurement and not a target.

There’s a word for PROGRESS without
LIBERTY — it’s called AUTOCRACY.

There’s a word for PROGRESS without
EQUITY — it’s called SLAVERY.

Liberty

To confirm if someone actually supports liberty, observe whether it matters to them if the liberty of others is at stake.

There’s a word for LIBERTY without
EQUITY — it’s called GREED.

There’s a word for LIBERTY without
PROGRESS — it’s called CHAOS.

Equity

The difference between equity and equality is that one is a process and the other is a result.

There’s a word for EQUITY without
PROGRESS — it’s called POVERTY.

There’s a word for EQUITY without
LIBERTY — it’s called DEATH.

“If you listen to others, keep your virtues in your heart, let liberty be your left arm and make equity your right arm, then you will find progress easy to obtain. However, if you ignore others and try to arm yourself with virtue or progress, you will soon lose liberty, equity, or both.”

— Sean Diamond