Equality Quotes - Page 16

• Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Men, He Man

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.22, tredition

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• there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Class, Together, Reform

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1854). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon: Containing Romance and Reality, Francesca Carrara, Traits and Trials of Early Life, Ethel Church, the Book of Beauty, Improvisatrice, the Troubadour, Venetian Bracelet, Golden Violet, Vow of the Peacock, Easter Gift, &c., &c”

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• If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.

  Tibor R. Machan

  Order, Law, People

  Tibor R. Machan (1995). “Private Rights and Public Illusions”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

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• Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.

  Laura Riding

  Men, Relation, Being Equal

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• Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Kindness, Compassion, Justice

  Entry of December 1863 or early 1864, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Humphry Ward, 1893.

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• All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Rights, Equal Rights

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.403

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• The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.

  Pat Buchanan

  Atheist, Children, Freedom

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• No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.

  Tammy Bruce

  Power, Rights, Noble

  Tammy Bruce (2010). “The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds”, p.58, Crown

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• Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Keys, Independence, Economic

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.126, A&C Black

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  Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Freedom

  Speech by minister Koenders at the presentation of the 2015 Human Rights Tulip, November 12, 2015.

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• Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Race

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• The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Religious, Believe, Democracy

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• The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

  Martha Plimpton

  Too Much, Way, Shows

  Twitter post from Mar 5, 2012

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• Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

  J. B. Priestley

  Change, Men, Trying

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• A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Strong, Excellence, Mediocrity

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• Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Principles, Taxation, Pay

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.525, Best Books on

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• Most women are one man away from welfare.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

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• I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Paris unity march shows we must protect freedom of expression, not curtail it further" by Julie Posetti, January 11, 2015.

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

  Lillian Hellman

  Earthquakes, Rights, Justice

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• No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rights, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.278

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• Love either finds equality or makes it.

  John Dryden

  Love, Marriage, Best Love

  John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.490

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• Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Atmosphere, Liberty, Achieve

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

  John Steinbeck

  Women, Circus, Beard

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.26, Penguin

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  Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

  Paul Harvey

  Animal, Government, World Suffering

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• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Stupid, Giving

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1996). “Unlocking the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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