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  I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Strong Women, Independent

  "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

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• Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Equality, Rights

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  In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Equality, Men, Law

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.156, Library of Alexandria

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• In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Men, Firsts

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• Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Inspirational, Equality, Availability

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• There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

  Hugo Black

  Men, Justice, Trials

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspiring, Children, Home

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

  Lucy Stone

  Numbers, Justice, Fearless

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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• If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Time, Helping Others, Volunteer

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• We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

  John Denver

  Inspirational, Song, Writing

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• Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Law, Tyrants

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.224, Cambridge University Press

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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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• Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Birthday, Risk, Age

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

  David Allan Coe

  Equality, Men, Equality Of People

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• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Motivational, Women, Law

  In The Arena.

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• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Eggs

  Animal Farm (1945) ch. 1

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• To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Alice Paul

  Equality, Ordinary, Complicated

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

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• By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Nature, Powerful, Thoughtful

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• Four legs good, two legs bad.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Two, Legs

  Animal Farm ch. 3 (1945)

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• Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

  Aristotle

  Equality, Equal Treatment, Persons

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3136, Delphi Classics

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• I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Horse, Boys, Order

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.21, UPNE

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• Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

  Socrates

  Philosophical, Equality, Sisterhood

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