Equality Quotes - Page 16

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, the infinitely variable appearance of an indivisible Whole.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

All men are born equally free.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.