Equality Quotes
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Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative 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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I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.
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Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.
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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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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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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 resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
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The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.
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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.
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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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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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Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.
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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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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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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.
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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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I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.
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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.
