Quotes about equality
equality men democracy
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. John James Ingalls
equality term aim
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality. John Dewey
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 men
A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him. Lord Chesterfield
equality law women-empowerment
If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women. Mahatma Gandhi
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.
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 night men
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow. Elizabeth Gaskell
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 government cities
A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods. Thomas Jefferson
equality rights special
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
equality government use
The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality. Victoria Woodhull
equality men heaven
All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions. Thomas Paine
equality views choices
As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially. Susan Faludi
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 simple virtue
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. Thomas Malthus
equality long enough
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place. Randall Jarrell
equality may upstairs
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. James M. Barrie
equality men would-be
For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized. Thomas Hobbes
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 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 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 mask equal
Mortals are equal; their mask differs. Voltaire
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 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