Equal Quotes - Page 29

• Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?

  Lilian Whiting

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Privilege

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• Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.

  Kate Green

  Taken, Logic, Chaos

  Kate Green (1993). “Shooting Star”, Harpercollins

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• It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

  Martha Finley

  Names, Brain, Weapons

  Martha Finley (2012). “Elsie's Motherhood”, p.68, tredition

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• I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

  Kaz Cooke

  Opportunity, Rights, Feminist

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• Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.

  Peggy McIntosh

  Opportunity, White Privilege, Racism

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• In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

  Samina Baig

  Community, Important, Males

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• Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Looks, Competence

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.

  Owen Wister

  Class, Car, Firsts

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• Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ... Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Country, Real, Mean

  Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.115, Penguin

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• Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Loyalty, Inspiration, Mean

  Lester B. Pearson (1970). “Words and Occasions: An Anthology of Speeches and Articles Selected from His Papers”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. I know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves who creates us equal in His image.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Opportunity, Justice

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Revenge, Ambition, Men

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.488

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• Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which was not unworthy of a statesman or a philosopher. He extended to all the inhabitants of the Roman world the benefits of a free and equal toleration; and the only hardship which he inflicted on the Christians was to deprive them of the power of tormenting their fellow-subjects, whom they stigmatised with the odious titles of idolaters and heretics.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, History, Titles

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1036, e-artnow

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• Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Stronger, Asking

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3104, Delphi Classics

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• Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.

  Aristotle

  Government, Views, Law

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.106, Aristotle

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• Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

  Aristotle

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Islamic, Rights, Saudi Arabia

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• The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

  John Marshall

  Reality, Opera, Fancy

  John Marshall, Herbert Alan Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) (1974). “The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence and papers, January 1796-December 1798”, Chapel Hill, N.C : University of North Carolina Press

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• I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Believe, Fighting, Rights

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• A constructive approach to diplomacy doesnt mean relinquishing ones rights. It means engaging with ones counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Mean, Rights, Addresses

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• However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Devil, Acrimony, Caprice

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• I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Jobs, School, Equal Pay

  "Gil Scott-Heron Rhymes a Revolution". Interview With Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 21, 2008.

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• The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

  Emma Goldman

  Mother, Sex, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

  Bell Hooks

  Ethos, Vision, Males

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.14, Routledge

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• Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Opportunity, Born, Capable

  "eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar On Why He’s Dropped $1 Billion To Make The World A Better Place" by Eleanor Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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