Progressive Values Stories: John on Equality

by WhatAre Progressive Values [courtesy of Blog for America]

  "You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."
Arthur Ashe

I interviewed John at his house in Oakland, California.   John says progressives are  looking for equality, for fairness and for justice and that  these are the same values that most Americans have. He went to Berkeley schools in the 60’s and 70’s, and was excited about the overall cultural search at that time of really trying to understand what equality might be.
 

"If we are not striving for equality, in heaven's name for what are we living?"
John Hope

Progressive Values Stories: John on Equality

John: We’re looking for equality, for fairness and for justice.  We’re looking for accountability and for a system of government that is not just a power structure that serves the powerful but that fulfills the stated intentions of the Constitution and the democracy that we are all brought up to believe in in school as opposed to what our government has unfortunately become.