Equality Of People Quotes

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  It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Equality, White

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

  Mason Cooley

  Struggle, Equality, Numbers

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• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Photography, Believe, Equality

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• I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Inspiring, Opportunity, Equality

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

  Marlo Thomas

  Women, Equality, Feminist

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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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• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Freedom, Patriotic

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, p. 111, 1965.

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• I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

  Maureen Reagan

  Equality, Men, Office

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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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• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  Irving Kristol

  Witty, Freedom, Humorous

  "Two Cheers for Capitalism". Book by Irving Kristol, May 11, 1978.

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Equality, Reality

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

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• There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Freedom, Equality, America

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, Part I, 1835.

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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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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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  The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Native American, Rights

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, Men, Opportunity

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.27, tredition

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

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

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