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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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• You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

  Marya Mannes

  White, Racism, Black

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• Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

  Margaret Mead

  Past, Opportunity, Support

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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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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  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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• If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Work Relationships, Justice, Balance

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• Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Humanity

  Calvin Coolidge (1929). “Mr. Coolidge's Address on Secondary Education”

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• I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

  Berthe Morisot

  Men, Thinking, Treated

  Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.203, Univ of California Press

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• On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

  Emanuel Celler

  Hands, Law, Practice

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.

  George Mason

  Mean, Independent, Men

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• We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Children, Justice

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• If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Women Empowerment, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

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• The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Heart, Opportunity

  "Capitalism and Freedom". Book by Milton Friedman, Ch. 12 "The Alleviation of Poverty", 1962.

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• The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Mean, Color, Guarantees

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• Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Law, Egalitarianism

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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• While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Men, Egalitarianism

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's.

  Murray Rothbard

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  "Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition".

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• I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

  Charles Kingsley

  Justice, Ants, Should

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

  Ed Miliband

  Thinking, Government, Glowing

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Opportunity, Literature, Equality Of Opportunity

  "Mind the Gap". Book by Ferdinand Mount, 2004.

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• Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Yugoslavia, Community, Multinationals

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• Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Fighting, Games, Losing

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• It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

  Michael Kinsley

  Would Be, Recipes, Way

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• There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

  Aime Cesaire

  Victory, Rooms, Rendezvous

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• The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Discovery, Cost, Speech

  "Robert Browning". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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