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  Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Democratic Socialism

  Speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, May 28, 1948.

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• I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

  Christine Gregoire

  Mean, Heart, Rights

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• My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

  Michael M. Honda

  Mother, Thinking, Equal Pay

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• We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Book, Writing

  Address before Joint Session of Congress, 27 Nov. 1963

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• To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Literature, Jackasses

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Love, Hurt, Light

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• Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

  Algernon Sidney

  Men, Masters, Force

  Algernon SIDNEY, Isaac Littlebury (1704). “Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author”, p.20

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• It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

  Anthony Collins

  Enough

  Anthony Collins (1790). “A philosophical inquiry concerning human liberty”, p.32

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• The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Opportunity, America, Trials

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• Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Indulge In, Style, Television

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• Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not

  Bennie Thompson

  Medicare, Private Sector, Coverage

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• Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

  Louise Slaughter

  Men, Rights, Ideas

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  The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Native American, Rights

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

  Aristotle

  Witty, Equality, Men

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• Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

  Anna Chennault

  Opportunity, Equality, Special

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• The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Use, Separation

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.90, Penguin

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• There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Mind, Contentment

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• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rights, Dignity, Born Free

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Rights, Being Human, Humans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

  Bella Abzug

  Jobs, Women, Memorable

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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• All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have clean air, clear water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, 'die'.

  John Africa

  Inspirational, Life, Weed

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• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

  Aristotle

  Freedom, Equality, Democracies Have

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.131, Aristotle

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• Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

  Honore de Balzac

  Equality, Power, Literature

  "La Duchesse de Langeais". Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Photography, Believe, Equality

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