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“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”

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Author:Barry Goldwater

“The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.”

Differences Equality Smallest Meanness

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.”

Mean Doe Social Differences Equality Likelihood Contributors Social Status

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.”

Men Differences Female Males Equality

Book:Womens Speaking

Source: Womens Speaking

“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.”

People World Humans Important Form Courses Differences Human Beings Essentials Importance Equality Cease Combination

Book:A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein

Source: A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein

“As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept. No rule of nature or of social organization says that the sexes have to be the same or do the same things in order to be social, political and economic equals.”

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Author:Alice S Rossi

“When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.”

Made Differences Strange Unique Equality Recognition Comparison Otherness

Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

“One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.”

Men Differences Equal Equality Comparison One Man

Book:Women in Love: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Women in Love: Top Novelist Focus

“Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.”

Trying Joy Leadership Differences Responsibility Democracy Authority Sacred Equality Priorities Recognition Obedience Innate Mystic

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.”

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Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.”

People Country Hard Differences Doors Demand Equality Canada Equality For All

Author:Paul Martin