Equal Quotes
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All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.
Deacon Jones
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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.
Rufus Choate
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I have always supported, and support today, equal rights for women, particularly in the workplace.
J. M. Roberts
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Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.
Andrew McAleer
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Everyone in the land has an equal chance. In war the bravest becomes a general, in peace the cleverest is chosen as a councillor.
G.A. Henty
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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.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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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.
Maurice Blanchot
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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.
Sarah Gavron
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Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.
George Washington
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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.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations"
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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.
George Clooney
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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".
Thomas Sowell
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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.
Courtney Milan
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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.
Virginia Williams
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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.
Nomy Arpaly
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You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and c, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.
Michael Ende
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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.
Alice Moore Hubbard
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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.
Hedy Lamarr
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I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.
Erica Brown
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There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause
Cass Sunstein
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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.
Sayed Kashua
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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.
John Brunner
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That my business success is equal to my personal life.
Merv Griffin