Equality For All Quotes

• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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  I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Equality, Rights

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

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• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rights, Dignity, Born Free

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

  Simone Weil

  Equality, Degrees, Needs

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.224, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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• All men are born equally free.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Equality, Men, Born

  "A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth or State of Pennsylvania", September 28, 1776.

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• Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

  Kofi Annan

  Equality, Goal, Challenges

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

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• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  H. Allen Smith

  Monday, Morning, 4th Of July

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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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• All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Equality, People, Diversity

  Rudyard Kipling, “We And They”

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• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21

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• To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

  Patricia Arquette

  Equality, Rights, America

  Patricia Arquette's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2015.

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• All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Work, Equality

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

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• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Equality, Men, Fairness

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.57, Wildside Press LLC

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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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• 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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• I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Strength, Hate, Women

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• Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

  Malcolm X

  Knowledge, Equality, Thinking

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• From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

  Carl Schurz

  Freedom, Spring, Blow

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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• None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Equality, Water

  "Persuasion". Book by Jane Austen, www.theguardian.com. 1817.

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• Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

  Tom Robbins

  Unique, Equality, Different

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

  Bernard Baruch

  Wisdom, Equality, Ships

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