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,

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.

William Shakespeare

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

Betty Buckley

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.

Benjamin Tucker

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

Aime Cesaire

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

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.

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

Pankaj Mishra

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.

Harry A. Blackmun

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.

Albert Einstein

Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

Gustave Flaubert

Equality is slavery. That is why I love art.

We think that the two sides should respect each other and follow the principle of equality and properly handle the issue in accordance with World Trade Organization regulations.

These families will never be truly safe, however, until full marriage equality is achieved.

The principle of equality and liberty are not just words on paper.

The sovereignty and equality of the Turkish Cypriots and the guaranteed right of Turkey are not negotiable subjects,

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

Kim Campbell

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.

Everything has been accomplished in this very life by those whose mind is set in equality.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Gerry Adams

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

Herbert Spencer

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.

H. L. Mencken

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

Jenny Shipley

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Herbert Read

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.