Equality Quotes
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On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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If you want to get power, listen carefully. Don't be impulsive. Don't arrogantly insert your opinion. Express gratitude. Cultivate a culture of respect. Show your respect for other people's efforts. Promote a culture of equality, too, where everybody's opinion matters. Tell stories.
Dacher Keltner
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Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.
Twinkle Khanna
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Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.
Jason Mraz
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You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
Jacques Maritain
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American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
Charles A. Beard
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Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.
William Shakespeare
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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
William Dean Howells
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As Americans, I think we really believe that with the meritocracy that exists in our country, the equality of opportunity is so important to the foundation of our culture and our society.
Kenneth C. Griffin
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I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. I obviously want equality and equal opportunities to the men.
Katie Taylor
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We should never forget that Americans continue to advocate for individual liberty, equality and self-governance. We often step in when it's necessary to help countries in need. But our history needs no whitewashing. To attempt this does us a terrible disservice.
Jay Parini
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Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.
L. Neil Smith
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There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.
Brad Thor
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I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.
Connie Chung
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A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.
H. G. Wells
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Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.
David Mixner
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
James M. Barrie
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I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
Andrew Cuomo
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Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
Aristotle
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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
Charlize Theron
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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
D. H. Lawrence
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The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Matthew Arnold
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The telecom industry reaches into every corner of our economies, societies, and private lives, and it is one of the greatest drivers of economic growth and human equality the world has ever seen.
Borje Ekholm