Equal Quotes - Page 8

A person's greatness is that which makes him/her equal to others

Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's.

The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the workmen in the camp to receive the salary of the legislator... who want to level even talents, knowledge, the virtues, because they themselves have none of these things.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?'

If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.

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.

Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask for courage equal to the fears.