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  I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Rights, Ordinary

  "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.

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• I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Life, Leadership

  Speech at the Reform Club, April 28, 1981.

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• You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.
  Perfect love cannot be without equality.
  A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.
  We are all alike, on the inside.

  Mark Twain

  Perfect, Perfect Love, Chiefs

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• Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Animal, Should Have

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.120

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• It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Two, People, Together

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• The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

  Gerry Adams

  Issues, Agendas, Unions

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• In 1965, I marched for equality.

  Alphonso Jackson

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• In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Hands, White, Black

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• Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Liberty, Use, Earth

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• A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Commitment, Becoming, Males

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• Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Exercise, Play

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• A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Empowering, Feminist

  "Happy 80th, Gloria Steinem" by Kathleen McCartney, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  Irving Kristol

  Witty, Freedom, Humorous

  "Two Cheers for Capitalism". Book by Irving Kristol, May 11, 1978.

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• A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Independent Women

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• Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

  Kim Campbell

  Justice, Tolerance, Canada

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• Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

  Michael M. Honda

  Sisterhood, Equal Pay, Issues

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• Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

  Hannah Arendt

  Organization, Born, Results

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• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Brother, Men, Vineyards

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

  Marilyn French

  Men, Feels, Inferiors

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• However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Pride, Trying, Citizens

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XIV, 1840.

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• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945) See Bierce 141

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  It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, White, Rights

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

  Harlan F. Stone

  People, Doctrine, Citizens

  Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, (100), 1943.

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• Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

  Will Durant

  Nature, Independence, Declaration

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