Equality Quotes - Page 15

• I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Love, Country, Money

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we've got to say: look, we're all in this together. We are human beings.

  David Kaczynski

  Justice, Hatred, Together

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• Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Eye, Essence

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• We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however, be accorded equality in that they should receive both compassion and respect; it is unworthy of us to exploit them in any way.

  Rebecca Hall

  Respect, Animal, Emotional

  Rebecca Hall (1983). “Animals Are Equal: An Exploration of Animal Consciousness”, HarperCollins

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• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

  Whitney M. Young

  Love, Hate, Lying

  Whitney M. Young (1964). “To be equal”

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• Herein, lies the key to love. Love builds bridges. Soul exists because God loves It. Soul equals Soul; no one Soul is greater than another. Experience the greatest love of all.

  Harold Klemp

  Lying, Keys, Bridges

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• For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

  Norman Cousins

  Opposites, Lows, Equal

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• It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Contemplation, Equal

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there

  Connie Chung

  Men, Thinking, Ugly

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• Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity, and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

  Bob Ney

  Independent, Technology, Opportunity

  "U.S. House Passes Braille Commemorative Coin Bill". Bob Ney's remarks before the vote on H.R. 2872, nfb.org. February 28, 2006.

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• If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Men, Moral

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

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• There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Powerful, Passion, Heart

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1839). “Democracy in America”, p.50

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• An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Inalienable Rights

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about

  John Hume

  Pregnancy, Rights, People

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 08, 2002.

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• Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

  Joy Harjo

  Inspirational, Life, People

  "Remember". Poem by Joy Harjo, 1981.

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• As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

  David Horowitz

  America, People, Effort

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• I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Thinking, Race

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• The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Strong Women, Sex

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• Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

  Socrates

  Change, Intelligent, Ignorant

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• Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the white and colored people in America, to develop side by side in peace and mutual happiness, the peculiar contribution which each has to make to the culture of their common country.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Inspiring, Country, Religious

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.61, Oxford University Press

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• Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

  Socrates

  Philosophical, Sisterhood, Men

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• It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

  Herodotus

  Freedom Of Speech, Way, Good Things

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• . . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.

  Nathaniel Altman

  Nature, Responsibility, Animal

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• What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Reality, House, Needs

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