«Nobody asks where we got our notion that people ought to have some kind of moral equality,» he observes. (religion-online.org)
It is true, as the Pope affirms, that democracy is uniquely valuable because it embodies more fully than any alternative system the principle of the fundamental moral equality of citizens. (firstthings.com)
For Rawls departures from equality require special justification, but the disvalue of such departures is not intrinsic, but derivative of the value of moral equality represented by the choice situation behind the veil of ignorance. (nextleft.org)