Quotes about equality
equality literature world
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. Herbert Read
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 equally god wise
Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish. Albert Einstein
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 maximum people workers
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.
equality odd-things universe
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right. Logan Pearsall Smith
equality men enough
No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible. Percy Bysshe Shelley
equality men people
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations. Paul Valery
equality way doe
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. Mary Douglas
equality night men
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow. Elizabeth Gaskell
equality sense-of-humor progressive
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. Lionel Trilling
equality discovery cost
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time. Gilbert K. Chesterton
equality-under-the-law class liberty
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. John Marshall
equality america air
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. Langston Hughes
equality two trying
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. Paul Dirac
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 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
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 would-be recipes
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. Michael Kinsley
equality perfect perfect-love
You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside. Mark Twain
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 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 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 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