Equal Quotes - Page 12

They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and they harm nothing. They are what we should be. I don't know if we'll ever get there.

Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me

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.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

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.

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

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.

Nobody is just anything... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

All lives have an equal value.

If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is. Let them therefore have sufficient to maintain them.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

A man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far better chance of entering political office or becoming a company director... Women are responsible for two thirds of the work done worldwide, yet earn only 10% of the total income and own 1% of the property... So, are we equals? Until the answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

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.'

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass