Equal Quotes - Page 9

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  I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Strong Women, Independent

  "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

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• Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Equality, Rights

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• No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

  Moliere

  Passion, Literature, Matter

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• Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Inspirational, Equality, Availability

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• There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

  Hugo Black

  Men, Justice, Trials

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• If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Time, Helping Others, Volunteer

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• First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

  Kathy Najimy

  Strong, Opportunity, Rights

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

  Joan Rivers

  Business, Partners, Forty

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• All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

  Andy Rooney

  Men, Law, Literature

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.262, Hachette UK

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• We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

  John Denver

  Inspirational, Song, Writing

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• Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Law, Tyrants

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.224, Cambridge University Press

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• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945) See Bierce 141

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• Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Birthday, Risk, Age

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

  David Allan Coe

  Equality, Men, Equality Of People

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• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Motivational, Women, Law

  In The Arena.

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• To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Alice Paul

  Equality, Ordinary, Complicated

  "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Eggs

  Animal Farm (1945) ch. 1

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Nature, Powerful, Thoughtful

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

  Aristotle

  Equality, Equal Treatment, Persons

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

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• Four legs good, two legs bad.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Two, Legs

  Animal Farm ch. 3 (1945)

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• I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Horse, Boys, Order

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.21, UPNE

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• All men are created equal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Classic

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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