Equal Quotes
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Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.
Nancy Kline -
If we gays want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.
Cleve Jones
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But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
William H. Seward -
For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.”
Alexander H. Stephens -
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
Honore de Balzac -
Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.
Josephine Baker -
While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naïve as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.
Michael Huffington
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
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 -
All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.
Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft -
The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.
William Jennings Bryan -
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 -
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.
Nicolas Gomez Davila -
I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever.
Stephen Douglas -
You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and c, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.
Michael Ende -
I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.
Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng -
All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.
Deacon Jones
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"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations"
Nông Đức Mạnh -
I just want to say that the multiculturalism - and especially the cultural relativism which is even worse than multiculturalism, the concept that all cultures are equal - is the worst recipe for any society.
Geert Wilders -
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
Thomas Sowell -
I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.
Kaz Cooke