equality
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘equality’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.” -Kofi Annan
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“Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.” -David Cameron
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“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.” -Patricia Ireland
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“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.” -Lionel Trilling
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“We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.” -Tarja Halonen
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“Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.” -Mercy Otis Warren
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“Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women’s’ point of view.” -Jenny Shipley
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“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.” -Crystal Eastman
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“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.” -Charlotte Bunch
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“I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality.” -John Randolph
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“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.” -Erica Jong
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“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.” -Marlo Thomas
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“If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.” -Franz Boas
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“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.” -Iris Murdoch
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“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development.” -Kofi Annan
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“Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.” -Tom Robbins
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“Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.” -Toni Morrison
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“Private religious speech can’t be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.” -Samuel Alito
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“Virtue can only flourish among equals.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.” -Linda Ellerbee
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“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.” -Mary Douglas
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“Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.” -Mike Honda
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“All imaginable futures are not equally possible.” -Kevin Kelly
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“Nobody really believes in equality anyway.” -Warren Farrell
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“I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.” -Agnes Macphail
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“I want to work on respecting individuals’ dignity. Equal rights, that’s where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that’s what we need.” -Christine Gregoire
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“If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.” -Robert Kennedy
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“Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.” -Rosa Parks
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“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.” -Honore de Balzac
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“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.” -Andrew Jackson
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“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.” -Carl Schurz
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“The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.” -Rudyard Kipling
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“A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.” -David Allan Coe
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“Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.” -Frances Wright
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“To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.” -Golda Meir
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“I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It’s not Islam.” -King Hussein I
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“The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.” -Kurt Vonnegut
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“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.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.” -Mason Cooley
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“It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.” -Samuel Johnson
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“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.” -Harry A. Blackmun
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“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl.” -Shirley Chisholm
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“No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.” -Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.” -Irving Kristol
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“The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.” -Albert Einstein
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“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” -Aristotle
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“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.” -Khalil Gibran
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“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.” -Bob Dylan
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“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.” -Will Rogers
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“I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.” -W. C. Fields
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“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.” -Bertrand Russell
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