Equal Quotes - Page 13

calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.

We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

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

We were a land of opportunity. You can never have equal outcomes, but you can have equal opportunity.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds

Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.