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“After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.”

World Littles Matter Play Shows Bigs Kids Guy Seeing Equal Horse No Matter What Fellows Polo Big Guys Equalizer

Author:Will Rogers

“Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.”

May Self Together Imagination Ability Pleasure Grief Seeing Equal Fortune Ill Envy Exceed Emulation

Book:The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives

Source: The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives

“A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.”

Men Opportunity Democracy Seeing Depends Equal Tools Equality Access Integration

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The American people understand that it is grotesquely unfair - we are a society that prides itself on fairness, that prides itself on equal opportunity, and people are looking out and seeing, since the Great Recession of 2008, 99 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent.”

People Opportunity Seeing Pride Equal Percent Income Fairness Unfair Recessions Equal Opportunity Great Recession

Author:Bernie Sanders

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Made Can Do Realizing Community Situation Roles Taken Rights Seeing Movement Ought Equal Men And Women Hey Equal Rights

Author:Julian Bond

“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

“For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.”

Heart Kind America Opportunity Felt Race Known Seeing My Heart Equal Election Extraordinary Gender Barack Eras Equal Opportunity Milestone New Era Race And Gender

Author:Jesse Jackson

“The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.”

World Ideas Opportunity Party Seeing Equal Dignity Transformed

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“I hope to see a more diversified country, where people can view everyone as equal individuals, where people can start seeing our young black and brown boys and girls and valuing their lives as we would value other lives.”

People Country Young Values Girl Individual Black Views Boys Seeing Equal Brown Boy And Girl

Author:Tracy Martin

“Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.”

Thinking Giving Feels Eye Able Felt Walks Behinds Seeing Streets Movement Equal Leaving Obligation Wander Emptiness Reducing Wandering Aimlessly

Author:Paul Auster

“A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not I." Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification. The doll-mask she saw had nothing to do with her, nothing.”

Knows Said Beautiful Saws Seeing Equal Mirrors Ugly Certainty Mask Division Beautiful Women Dolls Neat Simplification Ugly Women

Author:A. S. Byatt

“I want you." Feeling the grip of his hand in mine, the brush of skin on mine, seeing the way he moved in front of me, equal parts human and wolf, and remembering his smell - I ached with wanting to kiss him.”

Way Want Humans Feelings Hands Remember Seeing Fronts Mines Kissing Equal Skins Moved Smell I Want You Brushes

Author:Maggie Stiefvater