Equality Quotes - Page 7

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

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.

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.

. . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family. . . . The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.

We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.