Equality Quotes - Page 28

• My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opportunity, Ideas, Born

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.135, A&C Black

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• In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others

  Paul Martin

  Real, Opportunity, Rights

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• Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

  Anne Campbell

  Country, Choices, Care

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• Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

  Voltaire

  Mask, Equal, Mortals

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• Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spy, Slavery, Prison

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• A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

  John Foster Dulles

  Capacity, Indispensable, Hold Fast

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• An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are supreme and are served by the elite of the most talented men.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Egalitarianism, Intellectual

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• Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.

  Paula Nelson

  Home, Battle, Roles

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• In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Home, Men

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• Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Opposites, Circles

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• Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

  Mason Cooley

  Facts, Inequality, Values

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• Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Women, Demand, Causes

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• The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Cutting, Circles, Lines

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• When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  World, Earth, Path

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• Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest inconsistencies on the one hand, or running into the most arrant absurdities on the other?

  Angelina Grimke

  Running, Men, Hands

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• [My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

  P. D. James

  Father, Skills, Made

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• You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Want, Impossible

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.148, Delphi Classics

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• One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Differences, One Man

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love: Top Novelist Focus”, p.108, 谷月社

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• Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Responsibility, Differences

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• Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Strong, Fall

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Sex, Wall, Dust

  Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore Grimké (1998). “The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké”, p.90, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cutting, Peasants, Cutting Off

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.254, Penguin Books India

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• If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Men, Wife

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• "All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Law, Born

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.362, Rajpal & Sons

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• The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

  Paul Martin

  Country, Doors, Differences

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