Equal Quotes - Page 26

• The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear as plainly in theinfringement as in the observance, and our lives are sustained by a nearly equal expense of virtue of some kind. The decaying tree, while yet it lives, demands sun, wind, and rain no less than the green one. It secretes sap and performs the functions of health. If we choose, we may study the alburnum only. The gnarled stump has as tender a bud as the sapling.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rain, Men, Wind

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.299, e-artnow

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• No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Knowing, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have
  to ensure that right.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Citizens, Denial, Vote

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• We're [the USA] not going to go attack anyone. We're going to be really cool. We're not going to be exceptional anymore. Everyone's on an equal playing field. I mean that's dangerous. That's more dangerous than making this deal with Iran.

  Eric Bolling

  Mean, Iran, Usa

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• This is the joint responsibility of everyone who was involved in the introduction of the euro without understanding the consequences. When the euro was introduced, the regulators allowed banks to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds without setting aside any equity capital. And the European Central Bank discounted all government bonds on equal terms. So commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate the bonds of the weaker countries to earn a few extra basis points.

  George Soros

  Country, Responsibility, Government

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I always tell my students, "Don't just take things that are easy for you. If you're really good at math, don't take just math. Take classes that make you write. If you're a really great writer, but bad at math, take math and make yourself work your way through it."

  Condoleezza Rice

  Strong, Writing, Math

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's nothing bad about feminism. We have to help each other, because there's a lot of women in the world who are suffering because the fact is we're not equal. It's as plain as that. It's still a men's world. I don't know. We'll go on with it.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Suffering, Feminism

  "Yoko Ono on Lennon, Love, Feminism, and Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

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• If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Loud Voices, Rights, Feelings

  "Dancing with DeGeneres". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.

  Julian Bond

  Taken, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Heidi Williamson, www.americanprogress.org. February 22, 2013.

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• We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Heart, Thinking, Broken

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Followers, Neglected

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• Women have to ask for higher paychecks. And not equal, I don't want equal - why do I have to have the same paycheck as a guy who has much less experience than me? I want more. And we have to stop feeling ashamed for asking for more, and we have to begin to feel a little more entitled to things, to normal things.

  Isabel Coixet

  Guy, Feelings, Asking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.

  Amy Poehler

  Helping Others, Opportunity, Rights

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• It is unconstitutional to deny people, gay or lesbian couples, the right to marriage. Everyone has equal rights so this is the right way to go. I think it's a great celebration for America.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Couple, Gay, Thinking

  Source: guff.com

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• You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of history, you'll realize actually, no, there were times things were quite gusty in the world. I mean, just think, nowadays most people will say they support the advancement of women, woman has been equal, the fact that we're so aware of the gustiness, in a sense, also speaks about the heightening of our own sensitivity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.

  Emma Stone

  Goal, Trying, Remember

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we have not had the chance to look at the nature of justice in terms of no-self. That kind of justice is based on the idea of self, but it may be very interesting to explore justice in terms of no-self.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Rights, Self

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Home, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have found when I look at an audience that the expressions on the peoples' faces aren't always up to par with the sounds that they're making. A crowd can sound like they're having a good time when your eyes are closed but if you open your eyes, the looks on some of those faces don't equal the sound.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Eye, Expression, Sound

  Source: www.comedymoontower.com

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• I don't believe that everybody should be paid the same. I believe in equal pay for equal work.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Believe, Equal Pay, Should

  Source: rutherford.org

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• I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

  Patti Smith

  Christian, Thinking, Years

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• I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, People, Records

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.328, Rajpal & Sons

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• God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Made

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• If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Village, Republic

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1995). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.150, Hackett Publishing

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