Quotes about equality
equality order race
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. Harry A. Blackmun
equality equally man treated
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to man, but that you treat yourself equally the way you treat a man Marlo Thomas
equality fought importance instilled mum taught women
My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women. Chris Evans
equality two political
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. B. R. Ambedkar
equality liberty fraternity
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
equality men thinking
I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they. Berthe Morisot
equality men contemplation
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
equality focused fought love maximum recognized time women
I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time. Marsha Blackburn
equality great onto separate
I thought I'd stumbled onto Pluto. What I did not realize, I had stumbled into the great lie. They were separate but there was no equality whatsoever. Pat Conroy
equality rights liberty
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights? Ernestine Rose
equality differences people
There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form. Gertrude Stein
equality lovely liberty
Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words! Giuseppe Mazzini
equality issues unions
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union. Gerry Adams
equality men progress
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress. Herbert Spencer
equality kind annoying
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have. H. L. Mencken
equality practice abuse
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
equality hands white
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp ... Harriet Beecher Stowe
equality men law
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. Ignazio Silone
equality organization results
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. Hannah Arendt
equality rights law
the public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of universal difference and differentiation. Equality, in contrast to all that is involved in mere existence, is not given us, but is the result of human organization insofar as it is guided by the principle of justice. We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights.
equality sublime conventions
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. Jacques Barzun
equality men years
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal. Gilbert K. Chesterton
equality empowerment economic
Equality begins with economic empowerment. George H. W. Bush
equality power literature
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. Honore de Balzac
equality cry
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. Iris Murdoch
equality men important
The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it. Ida Tarbell
equality men feminist
Most women are one man away from welfare. Gloria Steinem
equality equal asks
All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.
equality justice poison
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice. Friedrich Nietzsche
equality creative community
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge. Jerry Brown
equality men white-man
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. Nelson Mandela
equality people liberty
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking? Krzysztof Kieslowski
equality justice tolerance
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. Kim Campbell