Equality Quotes
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
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Many conservative writers have contended that the tendency to equality in modern social movements is the expression of envy. In this way they seek to discredit this trend, attributing it to collectively harmful impulses.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
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What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.
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God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
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I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.
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There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.
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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
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Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.
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If in the past, after every lost war, the unlucky vanquished were divested forever of their honor and their equality of rights, the League of Nations would even now have to be satisfied with a whole series of non-equal and thus ultimately dishonorable and inferior nations.
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Like liberals, anarchists want freedom; like socialists, anarchists want equality. But we are not satisfied by liberalism alone of by socialism alone. Freedom without equality means that the poor and the weak are less free than the rich and strong, and equality without freedom means that we are all slaves together. Freedom and equality are not contradictory, but complementary.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
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Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
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Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.
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If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.
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Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.
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Efforts to bar transgender people from restrooms are nothing more than an attempt to codify discrimination before our country advances any further on transgender equality.
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I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.
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I was always like that, at 5 years old, just demanding equality. I thought it could all be fixed if you called attention to it.
