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  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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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, Equality, Emotional

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

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• We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Change, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Caution, Prudence

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Differences, People, Liberty

  "Individualism: True and False" by Friedrich Hayek, 1945.

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• Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

  Horace

  Thinking, Literature, May

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• True Christians are not bigoted and this is actually not a matter of equality, no matter how often it is referred to as equal marriage. Civil partnerships are equal to marriage - they might not have the same name but they are equal.

  Robert Flello

  Christian, Gay, Names

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• Our sexuality is fundamental to who we are, surely the crux of this debate is whether or not we accord equal right and respect and esteem to people regardless of their sexuality.

  Sarah Wollaston

  Gay, People, Fundamentals

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• It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Equality, Men, Contemplation

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

  Sophia Bush

  Thinking, People, Assuming

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• There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Usa, Doe

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• Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

  Thucydides

  Men, Looks, Firsts

  Thucydides (1965). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.38, Hayes Barton Press

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• It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Winning, Males, Fiction

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• Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

  Harold Wilson

  Should Have, Flying, Chance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Men, Despotism

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Unique, Needs, Helping

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• Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard

  Kate Millett

  Morning, Divorce, Men

  "Divorce law reform: beyond the hausfrau and pater familias" by Hannah Betts, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

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• If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

  Galen Rowell

  Real, Fighting, Artist

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• The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

  Ed Markey

  School, Past, Today

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• For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

  Tim Yeo

  Time, Party, Firsts

  "Clarke bids for Tory leadership", www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

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• We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  World, West, Victim

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

  Benjamin Tucker

  Equality, Liberty, Use

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• As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Men, Rights, Granted

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• All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Country, Strong, Weak

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• Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

  John Ralston Saul

  Inequality

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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