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“Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.”

Men Giving Water Race Morning Wise Drink Bird Charity Equality Harm Thee Alms

Author:Al-Maʿarri

“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”

“To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.”

Should Years Seems Animal Should Have Slavery Incredibles Philosopher Equality Oppression Greek Animal Rights Immorality Greek Philosopher

Author:Brigid Brophy

“How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.”

Men Mean Rights Talent Genius Exercise Equal Equality Instruction Secured Understand Me Mental Power

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

“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

Soul Culture Class Elements Diversity Social Justice Prison Equality Criminals Protest Brotherhood Socialist Disobedience Being Different Kinship Commonality Lower Class

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.”

Humans Persons Law Justice Numbers Principles Crime Citizens Civilization Built Dignity Ultimate Property Equality Punishment Human Life Good Citizen

Author:Max Nordau

“The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.”

Political Sex Rights Ought Equality

Author:Leland Stanford

“Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.”

Self Law Community Kings Equality Defense Denied Laws Of Nature Self Defense Right To Bear Arms Bearing Arms

Author:William Barclay

“Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.”

Thinking Men Life Attitude Planets Fool Fellows Equality Fellow Man

Author:John Fowles

“As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.”

Life Mean Doe Self Form Desire Suffering Causes Compassion Learning Brother Illusion Equality Breathing Separateness Unawareness

Author:Christmas Humphreys

“Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, the infinitely variable appearance of an indivisible Whole.”

Source: An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers

“. . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family. . . . The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.”

Men Body White Land Brother Treats Horse Equality Heat Beast White Man Juice Eagles Meadows Deer Ponies Dark Woods Body Heat

Author:Chief Seattle

“I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.”

World Reason Lying Universe Animal Business Share Fields Green Equality Labour Faculty Makers Constructs Cabinets Meadows Animal World

Author:Richard Jefferies

“Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.”

Has Beens Mother Force Church Path Influence Security Threat Equality Obstacles Massive Ireland Conservatism Traitor

Author:Bernadette Devlin

“There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.”

Should Work Freedom Emotional Discipline Equal Elements Weight Regard Equality Connected Intellect Separation Tone Spontaneous Spontaneity Supplements

Author:Armin Hofmann

“Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.”

Ifs Important Nations Trade Equality Free Trade

Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.”

Suffering Justice Injustice Equality Customs Disgraceful

Author:Plato

“Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'”

“Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.”

Men Spirituality Higher Creatures Standards Ethics Equality Live By Advancement Civilisation Vulture Hyenas

Author:H. Jay Dinshah

“It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.”

Men Animal Impossible Equality

Author:Ruth Harrison

“. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.”

Knows Men Feels Differences Animal Vices Equality Vice Versa

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan”

Persons Humor Would Be Funny Black Church Asking Equality Ku Klux Klan Black Person

Author:Mary Daly

“Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior”

Men Feels Seems Equal Equality Superiors Inferiors

Author:Marilyn French

“The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.”

Men Firsts Made Sides Feet Equal Equality Ribs

Author:Sophia Loren

“Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality”

Way Want Shows Passion Enjoy Privilege Equality Frenchmen

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences”

Ifs Men Mean Born Differences Forever Virtue Talent Birth Equal Labor Equality Making A Difference Providence

Author:David Eugene Edwards

“I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.”

People Believe I Believe Struggle Bottom Equality I Believe In

Author:Frances Fox Piven

“When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.”

Sun Equality Sun Rise

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality”

Men Quality Equality Threatened

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all”

Justice Liberty Equality

Author:William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.”

Individual Nations Ignorance Equal Increase Slavery Democratic Equality Proportion Subjection Enamored

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.”

Law Purpose Written Equality Separation Amendments 14th Amendment Fourteenth Amendment

Book:The Tempting of America

Source: The Tempting of America

“We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.”

Men Needs Women Change Challenges Silence Moral Break Courage Violence Strength Integrity Equality Gender Guts Violence Against Women Moral Integrity

Author:Jackson Katz

“I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.”

Should Trying Two Would Be Values Causes Trouble Economic Equality Two Things Recognise Economic Systems Recognise You

Author:Paul Dirac

“The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.”

Class Rights Subjects Citizens Bills Equality Punishment Civil Rights

Author:Lyman Trumbull

“Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.”

Men Self Self Esteem Demand Threat Equality Esteem Women Equality Turf

Author:Alice S Rossi

“A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal”

Should Doe Whole Use Able Humanity Nations Interest Position Ideals Equality Accord

Author:Hjalmar Branting

“One has the right to be wrong in a democracy”

Democracy Equality

Author:Claude Pepper

“Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.”

Doe Able Wealth Economy Creation Willing Equality Employment Fairness Redistribution Of Wealth

Author:Felix Rohatyn

“Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.”

Needs Doe Real Difficult Achieve Members Equality Frustrated Distribution Frustrating Revision Monitoring

Author:Mary Douglas

“We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.”

Matter Excellence Equality Clamor

Author:Eric Hoffer

“To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”

Equal Ordinary Equality Complicated Equal Rights Doubted Women Rights Equality Of People Equality For All Women Right

Author:Alice Paul

“The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.”

People Humans Humanity Language Differences Wealth Race Share Equal Fundamentals Equality Gender Factors Despite Buddhist Divides Superficial Dividing Differentiate Sameness

Author:Dalai Lama

“Law and justice are not always the same.”

Law Justice Equality Truth And Justice Law And Justice Liberated Woman Battered Women

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.”

“In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.”

World Looks Children Values Equality Missions Protection Partners Core Corporate Alliances Core Values Compatibility Unicef Health Education

Author:Carol Bellamy

“The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.”

Should Two Done Justice Principles Revolution Equality Injury American Revolution

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.”

World Needs Giving Mankind Planets Perspective Creatures Equality Realising Realisation

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”

Nature Independence Equality Declaration Declaration Of Independence

Author:Will Durant

“No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.”

People Ifs Made Ideas Individual Wish Rights Progress Modern Claims Lays Ancient Equality Deny Revolutionary Ancestor Propositions Declaration Of Independence Reactionaries Soundness

Author:Calvin Coolidge

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