Equal Quotes - Page 3

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.

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

the public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of universal difference and differentiation. Equality, in contrast to all that is involved in mere existence, is not given us, but is the result of human organization insofar as it is guided by the principle of justice. We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights.

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.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.