Quotes about equality
equality men born
All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it. Evan Esar
equality cemetery
The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
equality hands white
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp ... Harriet Beecher Stowe
equality men law
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. Ignazio Silone
equality organization results
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. Hannah Arendt
equality rights law
the public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of universal difference and differentiation. Equality, in contrast to all that is involved in mere existence, is not given us, but is the result of human organization insofar as it is guided by the principle of justice. We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights.
equality gender overcoming poverty
Gender equality is a precondition to overcoming starvation, poverty and epidemics.
equality men history
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. Erich Fromm
equality way poor
It's a poor rule that won't work both ways. Frederick Douglass
equality opportunity equality-of-opportunity
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity. Ferdinand Mount
equality boredom unfair
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. Francis Picabia
equality government america
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy. Florence King
equality firm says street wall works
For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll. Jodie Evans
equality rights liberty
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights? Ernestine Rose
equality empowerment economic
Equality begins with economic empowerment. George H. W. Bush
equality cry
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. Iris Murdoch
equality men important
The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it. Ida Tarbell
equality men feminist
Most women are one man away from welfare. Gloria Steinem
equality equal asks
All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow. H. L. Mencken
equality justice poison
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice. Friedrich Nietzsche
equality creative community
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge. Jerry Brown
equality power literature
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. Honore de Balzac
equality sublime conventions
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. Jacques Barzun
equality rights america
To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America! Patricia Arquette
equality class together
there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
equality men bootstraps
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. Martin Luther King, Jr.
equality men views
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. Mikhail Bakunin
equality men white-man
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. Nelson Mandela
equality law each-day
Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors. L. Neil Smith
equality law people
A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure. Nick Rahall
equality somewhere-else agendas
Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable. Mary McCarthy
equality white racism
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another. Marya Mannes
equality virtue equal
Virtue can only flourish among equals. Mary Wollstonecraft