Equal Quotes - Page 4

• But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Our Society, Matter, Doe

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• All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

  John Locke

  Peace, War, Independent

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191

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  I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Equality, Race, People

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• All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Science, Technology

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.315, Ballantine Books

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• We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

  Lionel Trilling

  Equality, Sense Of Humor, Progressive

  1950 The Liberal Imagination,'Princess Casamassima'.

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• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

  Shirley Chisholm

  Girl, Equality, Emotional

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

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• If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Pain, Unhappy

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• Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

  Michael M. Honda

  Equality, Sisterhood, Equal Pay

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• The past does not equal the future.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Humorous, Future

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2009

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• In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Equality, America

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.154, Routledge

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• The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

  Harry S. Truman

  Marine, Army, Long

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

  Socrates

  Life, Adversity, People

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• I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

  Charles Simic

  Poetry, Silence, Never Quit

  Charles Simic (1985). “The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry”

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• Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Animal, Slave

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Feet, Facts

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• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Freedom, Father

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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• Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Grace, Lust

  1881 Leaves of Grass, 'Youth, Day, Old Age and Night', stanza 1.

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• All men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  1951 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

  Aldous Huxley

  Equality, Men, Literature

  Proper Studies (1927) "The Idea of Equality"

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• Virtue can only flourish among equals.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Equality, Virtue, Equality Of People

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• No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

  H. G. Wells

  Passion, Writing, Editing

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• In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

  Marlo Thomas

  Fighting, Equality, Guitar

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