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Source: The Second Sex

“Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.”

May Persons Whole Opportunity Ability Race Responsibility Benefits Climate Equality Gender Advancement Equality Of Opportunity Remuneration Earn Respect

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.”

Believe States President Church Religious Democracy Citizens Notion Equality Separation Dogma Entitled Avoided Church And State Separation Of Church And State Religious Dogma

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.”

“With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.”

Inspirational Feels Children Jobs Struggle Right Now Determination Our Children Presses Patient Sorry Sake Equality Complaining Firm Personal Leadership

Author:Barack Obama

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

“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”

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Book:1984

Source: 1984

“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.”

Problem Women Rights Equal Ordinary Equality Complicated Reform Womens Rights Equal Rights Doubted Right Direction Women Rights Equality Of People Equality For All Women Right

Author:Alice Paul

“As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.”

Way Shows Too Much Equality Documents Founding

Author:Martha Plimpton

“Socialism values equality more than liberty.”

Values Liberty Equality Socialism Eugenics

Author:Dennis Prager

“Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.”

Men Trying Change Impossible Equality Accidents

Author:J. B. Priestley

“A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.”

Strong Levels Common Danger Weak Excellence Equality Inequality Communism Mediocrity Exploitation

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.”

World Values Literature Realizing Wealth Equality Nationalism New World Freedom And Equality Personal Wealth

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.”

Different Unique Equality Different Things Still Life With Woodpecker Equality Of People Equality For All

Book:Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.”

Ability Pay Principles Taxes Equality Taxation

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”

Littles Moments Nature Boys Bird Concerned Equality Little Boys Sparrows Bird Watching Singing Birds Birds Wings

Book:GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

Source: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

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

People Ifs Men Want Life Literature Attitude Watches Equal Treats Equality Inequality Inferiors Measurement Measure Of A Man Fairness And Equality True Measure Of A Man

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

“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”

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Book:Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz

Source: Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz

“I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.”

Humans Causes Equality Devoted Human Family

Author:Theodore Bikel

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

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

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

Women History Equal Equality Equality Of People

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

“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”

Long Past Struggle Equality

Book:The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866

Source: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“Most women are one man away from welfare.”

Men Feminism Feminist Equality Welfare One Man Womens Rights

Author:Gloria Steinem

“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.”

Should Ideas School Chance Quality Equal Elements Should Have Notion Equality Pursuit Opening Traditional Endowment

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“The battle for women's rights has been largely won.”

Has Beens Women Rights Battle Equality Womens Rights Empowering Women Sisterhood Equality Of People

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.”

Greater Acceptance Equality Marriage Equality

Author:Charlize Theron

“One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.”

“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

“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”

“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.”

“The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.”

Men Wells Business Taste Equality Well Being Acquire Exclusive Excessiveness

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Knows Poor Equal Equality Progressive Sense Of Humor Being Equal

Author:Lionel Trilling

“From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.”

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Author:Paul Tsongas

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

“We are all alike, on the inside.”

Inspiration Humanity Equality Hero Worship

Book:Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events

Source: Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events

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

Ifs Would Be Imagination Race Mankind Emotional Equal Thirds Intelligent Equality Stable Imaginative Select Energetic Presenting Different Cultures Cultural Diversity

Book:Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.”

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Author:Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“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.”

Needs Humans Human Beings Attention Principles Equal Degrees Institutions Equality Dues Recognition Manners Disability Equality Of People Equality For All Human Equality

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.”

“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”

Ifs Men Children Opportunity Social Process Men And Women Consequence Equality Equality Of People Equality Of Opportunity Social Equality Equality Of Man

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.”

Ifs Way Looks Ideas Happens Justice Doubt Honest Fool Happenings Commitment Concern Equality Piety Farce

Author:Bono

“So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.”

Humans Talking Rights Periods Dignity Threat Human Rights Equality Unprecedented Human Dignity Personal Dignity

Author:Bono

“Virtue can only flourish among equals.”

Virtue Equal Equality Equality Of People

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”

Inspirational Soul Facts Community Liberty Equality Liberty And Equality Fairness And Equality

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

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