Equal Treatment Quotes

• There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, People, President

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• When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Discrimination, Used

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• It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Wise, Equality, Men

  Dennis v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1950)

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• Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

  Aristotle

  Equality, Persons, Treatment

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3136, Delphi Classics

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• There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

  Aristotle

  Treatment, Equal

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• Everybody deserves fair treatment, equal treatment in the eyes of the law and the state.
  And that includes gays, lesbians, transgender persons. I am not a fan of discrimination and bullying of anybody on the basis of race, on the basis of religion, on the basis of sexual orientation or gender. This is actually part and parcel of the agenda that's also going to be front and centre, and that is how are we treating women and girls.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Bullying, Eye

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• calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

  Anita Hill

  Special, Discrimination, Injustice

  Anita Hill (2011). “Speaking Truth to Power”, p.340, Anchor

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• Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.

  Deborah Tannen

  People, Ifs, Treatment

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• Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

  Thomas Sowell

  Rights, People, Special

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• Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.

  Jerry Brown

  Children, Justice, Situation

  "California’s Gov. Brown blasts state, federal education policy" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. January 24, 2013.

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• I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Credit, Want, Socialist

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up, we can't ask for equal pay, you have to be paid on performance and the results you deliver.

  Katie Hopkins

  Special, Needs, World

  "Edwina Currie's horror as Apprentice star Katie Hopkins defends Sky Sports sexism row" by Georgina Littlejohn, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 28, 2011.

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• To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right.

  Andrej Pejic

  Identity, Proud, Matter

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• Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

  Steven Pinker

  Commitment, Issues, Psychology

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.451, Penguin

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• Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal treatment?The Oscars have not been any different for what...89 years? But why do we keep wanting to get thrown a bone? Why do we want to keep saying 'Can we please come to your party?

  Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson

  Party, Years, Gold

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• When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teaching, Class, People

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• Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them. The First Amendment requires that similar groups be provided with equal treatment. Religious speech is not a disability. It is our preeminent freedom.

  Mathew Staver

  Religious, Children, School

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• Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.

  Mariah Nelson

  Girl, Sports, Football

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• The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak out. Trivial formalities have been done away with and the accounts are open for all to inspect.

  Mao Zedong

  Men, Speaks Out, Soldier

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• Throughout my years of public service, I've listened to the voices of the gay and lesbian community, whether through whispered confidences or public declarations. I understand what it truly means to say that all people should be treated equally, and I'll always stand up for fair and equal treatment of gay and lesbian Americans.

  Mark Udall

  Mean, Gay, Voice

  "I Support Marriage Equality" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2011.

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• Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Teacher, Teaching, Science

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• Women don't even have equal treatment when it comes to filing a lawsuit for discrimination.

  Kim Gandy

  Discrimination, Filing, Lawsuit

  "Females win fight for political power" by Thom Patterson, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2004.

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• Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.

  Jessica Pare

  Men, Feminist, Fascists

  "Susan Patton: The Anti-Singlehood Crusader" by Erin Gibson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2014.

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• To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly to admit that factual inequality would justify unequal treatment, and the proof that some differences do, in fact, exist would not be long in forthcoming. It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Law, Essence

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 6 : Equality, Value and Merit, 1960.

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• The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Home, Divorce, Aspiration

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