Quotes about equality
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.
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 sense-of-humor progressive
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. Lionel Trilling
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.
equality together vases
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
equality men liberty
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. Thomas Aquinas
equality two trying
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. Paul Dirac
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 trying would-be
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements. Rex Stout
equality light views
Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth. Reinhold Niebuhr
equality liberty phrases
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.' Woodrow Wilson
equality term
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
equality two people
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. Samuel Johnson
equality men born
All men are born equally free. Salmon P. Chase
equality different kind
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself Ursula K. Le Guin
equality rights giving
Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same. Walt Whitman
equality color matter
The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment. Will Rogers
equality diversity people
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. Rudyard Kipling
equality mask equal
Mortals are equal; their mask differs. Voltaire
equality law numbers
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law. Rufus Choate
equality way rewards
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. Rowan Williams
equality gold sticks
Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks William Makepeace Thackeray
equality men sun
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
equality differences meanness
The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.