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“Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.”

Men Giving Has Beens Said Government Together Grows Chance Rights Share Equal Weak Stronger Expected Ignorant Denial Wiser They Said Vicious Equal Rights Affirming Upward Mobility

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!”

Ifs Men Should Years Individual Youth Amount Equal Hundred Twenties Eight If I Could Ems Pounds Halls Schooling Sixteen Present Time Fondness Tuition

Author:Charles Dickens

“When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?”

Men Born Written Equal Slavery Slave Owners Passages Born Free

Book:Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver

Source: Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver

“Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.”

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate a different perspective into the process, to give young women something to shoot for and someone to look up to. But all things are rarely equal.”

Men Giving Looks Different Young Order Process Careers Perspective Balance Equal All Things Competition Inequality Look Up Young Women Different Perspective Being Equal Balance Of Power

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.”

“Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.”

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Author:Publilius Syrus

“Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.”

Men Rights Equal Entitled Equal Rights

Author:Charles James Fox

“The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.”

Men Persons Values Money Rich Doubt Particular Amount Circumstances Thousand Equal Gains Determination Significant No Doubt Dependent Yield Items Utility Rich Man

Author:Daniel Bernoulli

“God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down.”

Men Trying Made Break Equal Breaking Down

Author:Anna Howard Shaw

“Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.”

“[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.”

“Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.”

Men Wells Suffering Opportunity Half Sky Development Limits Equal Affected Denied Equal Opportunity Sky Is The Limit

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.”

Men Feels Jobs Issues Rights Equal Liberation Equal Rights

Book:The Sum of All Fears

Source: The Sum of All Fears

“Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best qualities are the result of a struggle whose outcome is tragic. Yet he is a creature of love.”

“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.”

Men Years Said Knowing Equal Hundred Years Ago Equality Really Mean

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.”

Men Care Lying Moral Power Equal Claims Noble Faculty Womanhood Unselfish Disinterested Unselfish Love True Gifts

Book:The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

“Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his brain? Why is my work notpaid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my labor in the household, giving me in exchange what he deems fit? Why may he take my children from me? Will them away while yet unborn?" Let every woman ask.”

Men Giving May Children Said Body Asks Brain Fit Husband Equal Labor Slave My Children My Husband Controlled Household Unborn Male Dominance

Author:Voltairine de Cleyre

“Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.”

Source: Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam

“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

“A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.”

Men Littles Bigs Next Business Behinds Masters Equal Sitting Ears Organization Horse Coaches Drivers Insects Nests Whips Passengers Big Business Business Man Grasshoppers Dexterity Hornets

Author:B. C. Forbes

“The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.”

Men Use Sex Women Born Honor Equal Realms Degradation Birthright Subjection

Author:Mary C. Ames

“Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.”

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Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.”

People Men Believe Has Beens Difficult Sound Amount Equal Incredibles Average Spread Flesh Statements Delusion Vegetables Surprising Vegetarianism Average Man

Book:Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern

Source: Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern

“The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.”

“Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.”

Men Form Culture Belief Issues Century Higher Prove Equal Opposites Prejudice Method Guilty France Realms Statistics Ads Measurement Indiana

Author:Richard M. Weaver

“So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.”

Men Should Happiness Law Opportunity Wealth Education Equal Should Have Institutions Secure Diffusion Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.”

Ifs Men Believe I Believe Women Equal

Author:Alice Moore Hubbard

“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.”

“I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.”

Men Opportunity Sex Responsibility Rights Feminism Movement Equal Deserve Feminist Gender Favors Defined Liberation Transition Oppressed Entitlement Equal Opportunity

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.”

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Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.”

Knows Men Believe Heart Real Facts Difficult Forget Violence Equal Illusion Regard Excellence Vanity Great Men Excess Forget Him

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.”

Men Persons Earth Desire Kings Demand Equal Benefits Possession Circles

Book:Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

Source: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

“American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and have therefore tried to put aside differences.... Social feminists [in Europe]believe that men and society at large should provide systematic support to women in recognition of their dual role as mothers and workers.”

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Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which gave notice to the world that they proposed to establish an independent nation on the theory that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

“For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.”

Men Long Action Ability Equal Endure Envy Incredulity

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Since all men are created equal, I have to thank God I was born a woman.”

Men Born Equal Thank God

Author:Ingrid Weir

“By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the men, the embodied beings treat each other with equal respect and have good brotherly feelings amongst themselves, great peace and harmony abound. Then all this earth shines like one house. The whole world shines like the one dwelling house of the entire human family.”

Men World Humans Whole Feelings Earth House He Man Equal Treats Harmony Shining Supreme Whole World Dwelling Fraternity Peace And Harmony Human Family Brotherly Equal Respect

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God made the ant to be. When we meet the ant on the sidewalk, we step over him. He is a creature, like ourselves; not made in the image of God, it is true, but equal with man as far as creation is concerned. The ant and the man are both creatures.”

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Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceived and ultimately false psychological needs, such as his need for self-display, luxuries and the like. Twenty percent of humanity consumes eighty percent of the world's wealth and is accountable for an equal percentage of the world's ecological catastrophes.”

“When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.”

Men Progress Students Equal Late Majors Female Fellows Physics

Author:Margaret Wertheim

“There's nothing bad about feminism. We have to help each other, because there's a lot of women in the world who are suffering because the fact is we're not equal. It's as plain as that. It's still a men's world. I don't know. We'll go on with it.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.”

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Author:Julian Bond

“The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.”

Men World Children Home Actors Equal Raising Children Being Equal

Author:Gloria Steinem

“God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.”

Men Made Whole God Equal Men And Women Schemes

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.”

Men Eye Law Moral Seeing Subjects Mankind Equal Moral Law

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.”

Men Mankind Equal Bird Every Man Beast

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.”

Ifs Men Needs Mankind Equal Be Confident

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.”

Men Law Born Equal Equality Literal

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi