Quotes and Sayings About Equality
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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 -
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
-- Agnes Macphail -
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There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.
-- Aime Cesaire -
We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.
-- Alex Salmond -
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
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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.
-- Alexis de TocquevilleSource : "Discours prononcé à l'assemblée constituante le 12 Septembre 1848 sur la question du droit au travail". Oeuvres complètes, Volume IX, p. 546, 1866.
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Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.
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No one really believes in equality who's on top.
-- Alice Duer MillerSource : Alice Duer Miller (2016). “Manslaughter”, p.24, Library of Alexandria
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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.
-- Alice PaulSource : "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.
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until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.
-- Alison Roberta Noble Neilans -
Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.
-- Alistair CookeSource : Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.141, Open Road Media
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marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World.
-- Alva MyrdalSource : Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.28, Psychology Press
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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.
-- Amartya Sen -
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
-- Anatole France -
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
-- Anna Chennault -
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
-- Anna Howard Shaw -
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
I tasted the bread and wine of equality.
-- Anzia YezierskaSource : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
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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.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
-- Aristotle -
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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
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The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.
-- Aristotle