Quotes about equality
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.
equality earth sole
The sole equality on earth is death. Philip James Bailey
equality men office
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there. Maureen Reagan
equality splendor assuming
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal? John Milton
equality opposites lows
For every low there is an equal but opposite high. Norman Cousins
equality world earth
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer. Miguel de Cervantes
equality term aim
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality. John Dewey
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 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-under-the-law class liberty
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. John Marshall
equality night men
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow. Elizabeth Gaskell
equality america air
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. Langston Hughes
equality men
A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him. Lord Chesterfield
equality law women-empowerment
If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women. Mahatma Gandhi
equality men liberty
Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.
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 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 trying would-be
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements. Rex Stout
equality light views
Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth. Reinhold Niebuhr
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