Quotes about equality
equality long-ago tomorrow
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. Charles Caleb Colton
equality friendship gulf persian
We want the Persian Gulf to be a gulf of friendship and equality, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
equality rights government
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. Charlotte Bunch
equality rights progress
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. Charles Fourier
equality two factions
Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction. William Shakespeare
equality race giving
The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential. Betty Buckley
equality liberty earth
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. Benjamin Tucker
equality victory rooms
There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory. Aime Cesaire
equality men america
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. Bertrand Russell
equality want secured
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. Agnes Macphail
equality integral naturally nearer people placed rebellion reconciled
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
equality rights ideas
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors. Calvin Coolidge
equality men brotherhood-of-man
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.
equality face forward guarantee japan league majority paris peace proposal racial wilson
In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support. Pankaj Mishra
equality order race
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. Harry A. Blackmun
equality equally god wise
Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish. Albert Einstein
equality kingdoms criminal-mind
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. Martin Luther
equality men feels
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior Marilyn French
equality yugoslavia community
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it. Slobodan Milosevic
equality sisterhood men
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. Socrates
equality principles results
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition. Mercy Otis Warren
equality causes humans
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. Theodore Bikel
equality assumption feels
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it. Margaret Halsey
equality sisterhood equal-pay
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits. Michael M. Honda
equality fraternity spoiled
Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. Eric Hoffer
equality excellence matter
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.
equality littles stamps
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps. Patricia Ireland
equality people want
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
equality delight
Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals. Plato
equality government liberty
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. Friedrich August von Hayek
equality law people
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time
equality men mind
Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences. Franklin D. Roosevelt
equality taxation pay
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.