Equality Quotes - Page 3

• A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Liberty, Economics

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty" by Friedrich August von Hayek, Vol. 2 : The Mirage of Social Justice, (Ch. 9), 1976.

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• Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

  Samuel Alito

  Religious, Speech, Secular

  Samuel Alito during U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on His Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 11, 2006.

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• A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

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• All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

  Rudyard Kipling

  People, Diversity, Ridiculous

  Rudyard Kipling, “We And They”

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• To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

  Golda Meir

  Jobs, Successful, Men

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• People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Beauty, Differences, People

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• Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

  Crystal Eastman

  Motherhood, Roots, Work Out

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Freedom, Memorable

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• Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

  Tom Robbins

  Unique, Different, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

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• Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Women, Hymns, Principles

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.22

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• If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

  Franz Boas

  Intelligent, Emotional, Race

  Franz Boas (2014). “Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)”, p.75, Routledge

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• Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

  Patricia Ireland

  Littles, Food Stamps, Stewardess

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• The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Summer, Autumn, Human Rights

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Egalitarianism, Political

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 7 Apr. 1776)

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• Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

  Erica Jong

  Women, Sisterhood, Feminist

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

  Mason Cooley

  Struggle, Numbers, People

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• I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

  Agnes Macphail

  Sisterhood, Want, Empowering Women

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• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  Patricia Ireland

  Sisterhood, People, Want

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• We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

  Tarja Halonen

  Country, Gender, Concerned

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• Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

  Warren Farrell

  Believe, Annoying

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• If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Men, Color

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Women, Sisterhood, Rights

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

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• Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

  Toni Morrison

  Sisterhood, Rights, Two

  Barnard College Commencement Address, May 1979.

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• Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Women, Sisterhood, Rights

  "Global struggle for women's rights spotlighted at New York meeting" by Deborah Feyerick, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2000.

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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, Feminist, Heartless

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