Equal Quotes
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Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.
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All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.
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I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.
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The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
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We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.
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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.
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Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.
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We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.
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It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.
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Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.
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From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.
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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.
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He’d never treated her like a lady. He’d treated her like an equal instead, and that had seemed far more precious.
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Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.
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Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
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"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations"
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I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.
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Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
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I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
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That my business success is equal to my personal life.
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And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.
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I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.
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Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
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I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting value on human life.
