Equality Quotes
The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.
Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.
It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.
If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally.
Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.
How could I insist on equality when I was unwilling to do what life demanded to be equal?
The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.
From the intellectual point of view an abyss may exist between a great mathematician and his boot maker, but from the point of view of character the difference is most often slight or non-existent
We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof....
How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.
We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.
Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.
The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind.
there is but only one form of socioeconomic society whereby all members of its social group hold unmerited equal status...A social collective/socialist or slave society!".
Never place yourself above your fellow man, for we are all, each and every one of us, born of equal rights to the nourishing earth beneath and the wonder of the stars above.
The world isn't only meant for humans to enjoy it, it has also a duty to give animals rights and freedom.
All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.
I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?
There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.
The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.
Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications.
Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.
In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.
Men are naturally unequal. They are unequal members of one family, in which one can be brilliant, another mediocre, and another an imbecile. Hereditary substance is a mystery.
It would seem that the right to equality and human rights is far more an exclusive thing than an inclusive thing.
While EQUALITY means no more 'previously disadvantaged' it also means that there should be no 'currently disadvantaged' to replace them.
The religious right sees every group trying to achieve equality with them as a threat, because obviously if they become equal to them, THEY won't be able to abuse their human rights anymore.
Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out - are.
Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others.
The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter.
As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain, " one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".
When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.
When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.From The Wife Drought
Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does.
There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men.