Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We want the Persian Gulf to be a gulf of friendship and equality,

The people who had been in rebellion must necessarily come back into the Union, and be incorporated as an integral part of the nation. Naturally the nearer they were placed to equality with the people who had rebelled, the more reconciled they would

Aime Cesaire

There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

Barney Frank

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

Dian Fossey

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Agnes Macphail

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Charlotte Bunch

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Charles Fourier

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Anthony Trollope

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

Abraham Lincoln

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

Brigid Brophy

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

Ludwig von Mises

To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

Timothy Noah

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Dennis Prager

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Arthur Hugh Clough

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.

Barbara Jordan

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

Barbara Jordan

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

Bashar al-Assad

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

Arthur Ashe

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

Evan Wolfson

We've seen a steady improvement in the number of people who support marriage equality for same-sex couples.

Aristotle

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Aristotle

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Sue Monk Kidd

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

Alistair Cooke

Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.

Zadie Smith

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Abraham Lincoln

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Aldous Huxley

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.