Equality Of People Quotes

• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

  Bella Abzug

  Jobs, Women, Memorable

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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• If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Equality, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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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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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Beauty, Equality, Differences

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• No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

  George Orwell

  Equality, Reform, Literature

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Mistake

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

  Peggy Noonan

  Friendship, True Friend, Communication

  "What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era". Book by Peggy Noonan, 1990.

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• A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Giving Up, Equality, Men

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

  David Allan Coe

  Equality, Men, Equal

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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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• Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Women, Equality, History

  2017 speech at the University of Michigan, www.chicagotribune.com. January 30, 2017.

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• Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

  Toni Morrison

  Equality, Sisterhood, Rights

  Barnard College Commencement Address, May 1979.

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• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Freedom, Memorable

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• Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

  Honore de Balzac

  Equality, Power, Literature

  "La Duchesse de Langeais". Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.

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

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Equality, Egalitarianism

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 7 Apr. 1776)

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• Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

  Erica Jong

  Women, Equality, Sisterhood

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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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• Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Family, Inspiring, Women

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• Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

  Erich Fromm

  Equality, Men, History

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Women, Equality, Sisterhood

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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