The most profound factor in perpetuating human inequality is the inequity in the opportunity to develop and then utilize the intellectual capacity of individuals. The “capacity” and “courage” of individuals and equity in the available “conditions” together determine how solid our fundamentals are in building an equitable society.

s not it the desire of each of us to live with growing wealth that surpasses everyone else’s? Yet, the same "we" seek justice, equality, and social responsibility when we are in the receiving end. We want us to be treated with equal dignity when we run into profound difficulties like natural disaster, illness, unemployment, failure, or injustice. The duality of prosperity and equality is such that they are irreducibly distinct yet one gains significance only in the existence of the other.

They are like body and mind, which are distinct but one could not have existed without the other