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Barry Goldwater

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Barry Goldwater

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Barry Goldwater is saying that when equality is seen the way the founding fathers intended, it supports freedom and allows people to express their unique talents. However, if equality is misunderstood as making everyone the same, it results in uniformity and eventually leads to oppressive control.

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