Quotes about equality
equality government cities
A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods. Thomas Jefferson
equality rights special
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
equality rights noble
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others. Tammy Bruce
equality men would-be
For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized. Thomas Hobbes
equality two people
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. Samuel Johnson
equality mask equal
Mortals are equal; their mask differs. Voltaire
equality liberty phrases
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.' Woodrow Wilson
equality term
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
equality color matter
The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment. Will Rogers
equality diversity people
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. Rudyard Kipling
equality men born
All men are born equally free. Salmon P. Chase
equality goal challenges
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. Kofi Annan
equality justice tolerance
The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.
equality together vases
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
equality men liberty
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. Thomas Aquinas
equality long enough
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place. Randall Jarrell
equality problem
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
equality today tomorrow
Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
equality men relation
Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings. Laura Riding
equality law numbers
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law. Rufus Choate
equality way rewards
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. Rowan Williams
equality rights giving
Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same. Walt Whitman
equality views choices
As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially. Susan Faludi
equality men feet
The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him. Sophia Loren
equality men thinking
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. Simone Weil
equality degrees needs
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
equality simple virtue
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. Thomas Malthus
equality sisterhood two
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. Toni Morrison
equality government use
The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality. Victoria Woodhull
equality men heaven
All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions. Thomas Paine
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 different kind
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself Ursula K. Le Guin