Quotes about equality
equality virtue equal
Virtue can only flourish among equals. Mary Wollstonecraft
equality law people
A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure. Nick Rahall
equality somewhere-else agendas
Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable. Mary McCarthy
equality men bootstraps
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. Martin Luther King, Jr.
equality men views
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. Mikhail Bakunin
equality rights america
To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America! Patricia Arquette
equality class together
there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
equality law each-day
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
equality way doe
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. Mary Douglas
equality
Nothing is so unequal as equality. Pliny the Elder
equality long enough
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place. Randall Jarrell
equality problem
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
equality today tomorrow
Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow. Ralph Waldo Emerson
equality men relation
Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings. Laura Riding
equality america air
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. Langston Hughes
equality goal challenges
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. Kofi Annan
equality justice tolerance
The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations. Kofi Annan
equality together vases
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
equality men enough
No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible. Percy Bysshe Shelley
equality men people
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations. Paul Valery
equality odd-things universe
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right. Logan Pearsall Smith
equality half world
HOW CAN WE EFFECT CHANGE IN THE WORLD WHEN ONLY HALF OF IT IS INVITED OR FEEL WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONVERSATION? Emma Watson
equality two feminist
IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS. Emma Watson
equality men liberty
Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him. Mahatma Gandhi
equality matter ability
No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
equality league giving
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. Hjalmar Branting
equality law special
All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish. Heinrich Heine
equality equal
We are not all equal, nor can we be so. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
equality discovery cost
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time. Gilbert K. Chesterton
equality-under-the-law class liberty
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. John Marshall
equality firm says street wall works
For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll. Jodie Evans
equality maximum people workers
It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.
equality rights progress
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. Charles Fourier