Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.

Barbara Jordan

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

Barbara Jordan

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

We're heading into what is expected to be our worst year on record. We're predicting a 20 percent loss in production, which is equal to $100 million.

Bashar al-Assad

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.

Evan Wolfson

We've seen a steady improvement in the number of people who support marriage equality for same-sex couples.

Anthony Trollope

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

Brigid Brophy

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

Bono

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Edmund Burke

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Dian Fossey

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

Arthur Ashe

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Ayn Rand

Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

Bertrand Russell

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

Cardinal Richelieu

Who will be my equal?

Arthur Hugh Clough

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Mohammed Morsi

I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people.

Robert Hall

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Brian Urlacher

We know we are No. 1. Yards don't equal wins. Yards are big, but points are the main thing that matters.

Troye Sivan

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

Vint Cerf

It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.

Alberto Giacometti

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Aldous Huxley

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Madeleine M. Kunin

When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

Venus Williams

We want to be treated equally as the men. This is not just about women's tennis, but women all over the world.

We are looking for a better result than last time and hoping for at least two gold medals. But it is equally important to get experience for our young swimmers.

Sue Monk Kidd

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

We'd like to get him up to about 250. He's a guy that has the athleticism to play the run and play the pass equally well.

We'd like to get him up to about 250, ... He's a guy that has the athleticism to play the run and play the pass equally well.

We would like to establish a more full, stable and equal relationship.

Boris Yeltsin

We don't have Western priorities. We are equally oriented to the west, the east, the north and the south. We want friendship with all.