Equality Quotes - Page 10

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.