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“From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.”

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Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.”

“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.”

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Author:James M. Barrie

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”

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Author:Alice Paul

“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.”

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Book:Unpopular Essays

Source: Unpopular Essays

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.”

“Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.”

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Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.”

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Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.”

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Author:Marlo Thomas

“There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”

“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”

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Author:Lionel Trilling

“If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.”

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Book:Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)

“Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.”

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Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”

“Virtue can only flourish among equals.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.”

“From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.”

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Author:James Madison

“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less”

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.”

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Author:Aristotle

“No man is above the law, and no man is below it.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”

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Book:Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

“Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.”

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Author:Carl Schmitt

“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

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