Equality Quotes - Page 12

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Equality for women is progress for all.

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

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