Equal Quotes - Page 5

• It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

  Helen Keller

  Hard Work, Heart, Doors

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• I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

  Emily Bronte

  Shining, Heaven, Glory

  "Last Lines" l. 1 (1846)

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• Never make a companion equal to a brother.

  Hesiod

  Brother, Sibling, Companionship

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• As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life, Men, Perspective

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 1,

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• All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Patriotic, Equality

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal.

  Martina McBride

  Stars, Bigs, I Can

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• Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

  Angela Merkel

  People, Politician, Committed

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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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, Equality, Rights

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

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• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  Olive Schreiner

  Sleep, Equality, Ties

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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

  Hannah Arendt

  Equality, Organization, Born

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• Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Opportunity, Thinking, Feelings

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• The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Ideas, Numbers, Splits

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

  Marilyn French

  Equality, Men, Feels

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• The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

  Edward Forbes

  Sea, Ties, Links

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.5

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• the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Law, Majority Rule

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

  Al Sharpton

  Dream, White, House

  "Who's Distorting the Civil Rights Movement?" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

  Aristotle

  Order, Mind, May

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

  Charles Rangel

  Country, Government, Citizenship

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• I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder's relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons.

  Gillian Anderson

  Independent, Thinking, Stronger

  "HSX Dovlin's Domain". Interview with Rod Dovlin, www.gilliananderson.ws. August 29, 1997.

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• In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

  W. H. Auden

  Prayer, Unique, Class

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• Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dream, Sleep, Genius

  "The Temptation to Exist". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1956.

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• For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Opposites, Rotation, Traveler

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Mother, Role Models

  "Miley Cyrus talks about 'the trust thing' and being a role model to young girls". Entertainment Tonight Interview, celebritybabies.people.com. January 18, 2008.

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• Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

  Larry Elder

  Cutting, Doe, Increase

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• The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

  Havelock Ellis

  Children, Parent, Should

  Havelock Ellis (2012). “Little Essays of Love and Virtue”, p.27, tredition

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