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Bertrand Russell
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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 d
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Bella Abzug
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Susan B. Anthony
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The true republic ??” men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
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Lydia Maria Child
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(An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge of illegal voting, at the presidential election in Nov. 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of election by whom her v
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Susan B. Anthony
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One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.
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Shirley Chisholm
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It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to
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Langston Hughes
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Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
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Abraham Lincoln
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I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I have a dream that one day???the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
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Marquis de Vauvenargues
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It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.
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Malcolm X
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Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
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Woodrow Wilson
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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.
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Marlo Thomas
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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.
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Carl Schurz
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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.
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Bertrand Russell
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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.
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John F. Kennedy
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
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Robert Kennedy
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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.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
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Andrew Jackson
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
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John James Ingalls
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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
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William Faulkner
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Linda Ellerbee
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People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
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Shirley Chisholm
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
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Aristotle
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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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Kofi Annan
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More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
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Alexis Charles Henri Clrel 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.
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Irving Kristol
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Marquis de Vauvenargues
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It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.
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Bob Dylan
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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.
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Kofi Annan
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More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
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Kahlil Gibran
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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Andrew Jackson
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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William Faulkner
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
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Franoise d'Aubign Maintenon
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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
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Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
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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.
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Michel de Montaigne
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.???
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Aristotle
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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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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
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Woodrow Wilson
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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.
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Malcolm X
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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Henri Frdric Amiel
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Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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Carl Schurz
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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.
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Marquis de Sade
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Marlo Thomas
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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.
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John F. Kennedy
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
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It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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The love of democracy is that of equality.
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Double standards cut both ways - so does equality.
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
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Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
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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.
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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.
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In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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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 the government to the utmost.
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Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers.
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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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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.
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"For women, `equality' is a disaster." - Heinlein
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The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of ben
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It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with coura
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"For women, "equality is a disaster." - Lazarus Long
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