Equality Quotes - Page 23

• Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.

  Mariah Nelson

  Girl, Sports, Football

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• When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Income, Speak

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• ... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition, must be similar inhabits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.

  Frances Wright

  Country, Strong, Children

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• If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Men, Ideas

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Strength, Wise, Hope

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.38, BookRix

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• No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Matter, Ability, Servant

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• People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Long, People

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• until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

  Men, Law, Public Opinion

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• If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Music, Beautiful, Play

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• Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

  Voltaire

  Mask, Equal, Mortals

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• I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

  Victor Gollancz

  Animal, Thinking, Humanity

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• Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.

  Winifred Holtby

  Life Is Good, Men, Substance

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• People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, People, Leave Me Alone

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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  So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Long, Knaves

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men

  "Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.

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• Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

  George Eliot

  Life, Exercise, Animal

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• The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

  Charles Rangel

  Rights, Justice, African American

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• America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

  Nick Rahall

  Years, Ideas, America

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• It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fighting, Opportunity, Class

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• No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Enough, Deny

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1965). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letters, 1803-1818”

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• Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!

  Walter E. Williams

  Should Have, Taught Us, People

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• Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

  Joss Whedon

  Inspiring, Men, Feminism

  Equality Now Tribute Address, delivered 15 May 2006, Men on the Front Lines Honoree

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• Equality begins with economic empowerment.

  George H. W. Bush

  Empowerment, Economic, Economic Empowerment

  1988 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 18 August 1988, Superdome, New Orleans, LA

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• Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Night, Men, Rising

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1872). “Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell”, p.315

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• No one enjoys being equal.

  David Mamet

  Enjoy, Equal, Being Equal

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