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“Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.”

Religious Speech Equality Treated Secular

Author:Samuel Alito

“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.”

Inspirational Mean Persons Long Might Women Creativity Positive Conflict Slavery Equality Memorable Soar Peace And Justice Peace Justice Nigeria Independence

Author:Marian Anderson

“I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.”

Inspirational Ends Hate Fighting Race Positive I Hate Independent Equality Discrimination Manifestation Apartheid Anti Discrimination

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.”

Matter Facts Science Literature Enjoy Democratic Equality Corny

Book:The humanist in the bathtub

Source: The humanist in the bathtub

“Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.”

Mean Evil Institutions Equality Evil People

Author:Slobodan Milosević

“Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.”

Women Results Principles Conditions Democratic Equality Womens Rights Hymns Equality Of People Democratic Rights

Book:History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes

Source: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes

“Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.”

Littles Stills Cases Paid Equality Stamps Food Stamps Stewardess

Author:Patricia Ireland

“I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.”

People Want Equality Entitled Organize Sisterhood

Author:Patricia Ireland

“All men are born equally free.”

Men Born Equality Equality Of People Equality For All Equality Of Man

Author:Salmon P. Chase

“We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.”

Country Models Concerned Equality Gender Gender Equality

Author:Tarja Halonen

“Nobody really believes in equality anyway.”

Believe Equality Annoying

Author:Warren Farrell

“I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.”

Want Absolutes Equality Empowering Women Sisterhood Secured

Author:Agnes Macphail

“The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.”

Culture Social Women Principles Rights Progress Diversity Social Justice Injustice Equality Womens Rights Extensions Sisterhood Social Progress Basic Principles

Author:Charles Fourier

“Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.”

Needs Government Women Rights Movement Equality Womens Rights Empowering Women Sisterhood

Author:Charlotte Bunch

“Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.”

Way Want Seems Joy Feminism Economic Roots Independence Work Out Equality Motherhood Being A Mom Joys Of Motherhood Economic Independence

Book:Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

“Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.”

Ifs Views Development Understood Equality Point Of View Empowering Women Sisterhood

Author:Jenny Shipley

“An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.”

Persons Humor Religious Subjects Equality Kingdoms Inequality Rulers Criminal Mind Character Education Serfs

Author:Martin Luther

“By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.”

Men Nature Love Is Powerful Liberty Equal Equality Thoughtful Endowment Equality For All Liberty And Equality Equality Of Man Human Equality

Book:St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts

Source: St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts

“Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.”

Persons Equal Equality Treatment Equal Treatment

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.”

Opportunity Talent Prove Equal Equality Equal Opportunity Equality Of Opportunity

Author:David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.”

May Mean States Found Social Community Common Liberty Practice Rights Conditions Civilization Misery Equality Divided Savages Social Equality

Author:James F. Cooper

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal”

“I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.”

Men Feels Politics He Man Office Equality Incompetent Unqualified Equality Of People Equality Of Man

Author:Maureen Reagan

“In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.”

Seems Dark Mankind Diversity Equality Brotherhood Brighter Unity In Diversity Equality For All

Author:Robert M. Hensel

“Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.”

Real Sacrifice Achieve Illusion Prosperity Equality Favors Egalitarianism

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.”

Three Liberty Equality Serpent Fraternity Hydra

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.”

Ends Seems Justice Equality Doctrine Poison Poisonous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.”

“The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.”

Doe Earth Imagination Levels Principles Equality Flight Egalitarianism

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.”

Beautiful Generations Errors Equality Trauma Block Sixty Efficiency Sentimental Delay My Generation Egalitarianism

Author:Camille Paglia

“To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.”

Firsts Long Mankind Equality Remove Barriers Divided

Author:Robert M. Hensel

“We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.”

Lasts Born Sleep Equal Lays Equality Knees Ties Nurse Babe

Author:Olive Schreiner

“For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.”

Ifs Men Would Be All Things Equality

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.”

Thinking Men Values Liberty Beauty Grace Truth Is Infinite Humanism Equality Liberty And Equality

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

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

“The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.”

Humans Rights Development Connections Human Rights Equality Gender Womens Rights Equal Rights Gender Equality Economic Development Human Rights Day

Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.”

Humans Rights Respect Empowerment Human Rights Equality Empowering Women Empowerment Womens Rights Empowered Empowered Women Intertwined Women Rights Women Right

Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.”

Humans Rights Design Future Universal Human Rights Equality Ethical Refugee Criteria Human Rights Day

Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.”

World Needs Wells Nations Justice United Family Security Foundation Prosperity Equality Tolerance United Nations Famine Equality And Justice Fragmentation

Author:Kofi Annan

“Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.”

“The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.”

Nations United Race Equality Ideology United Nations Unesco Freedom And Equality

Author:Ralph Bunche

“The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.”

Humans Term Human Beings Economy Ultimate Aim Productions Equality Goods Global Economy

Author:John Dewey

“Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.”

America Air Diversity Equality Breathe Brotherhood Unity In Diversity Clash Of Civilizations

Author:Langston Hughes

“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none”

Rights Special Equal Privilege Equality 4th Of July Equal Rights

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.”

“We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.”

Knows Stills Opportunity Individual Ability Equality Disability Equality Of Opportunity

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

“For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.”

Thinking Humans Justice Race Victory Competition Equality Human Race Resolution Substitutes Cooperation Domination Brutality Win Win

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.”

Ifs Thinking Should Real Opportunity Given Women Equality Arguing Indian Womens Rights

Author:Amartya Sen

“A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.”

Source: The Outline of History

“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”

Term Friendship Friends Equality Real Friends

Book:Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president

Source: Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president

“The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.”

Should Use Government Women Protect Possession Equality Womens Rights

Book:The Victoria Woodhull Reader

Source: The Victoria Woodhull Reader