Equality For All Quotes

• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

  Simone Weil

  Equality, Degrees, Needs

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.224, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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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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• 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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• All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Equality, People, Diversity

  Rudyard Kipling, “We And They”

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21

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• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Freedom, Father

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Mistake

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

  Voltaire

  Powerful, Equality, Citizens

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.379

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• If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Differences, Diversity

  1963 Speech, American University, Washington DC, 10 Jun.

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• A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Equality, Empowering

  "Happy 80th, Gloria Steinem" by Kathleen McCartney, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.

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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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• Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

  Toni Morrison

  Equality, Sisterhood, Rights

  Barnard College Commencement Address, May 1979.

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• People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Beauty, Equality, Differences

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• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Freedom, Memorable

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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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• Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

  Michael M. Honda

  Equality, Sisterhood, Equal Pay

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• All men are born equally free.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Equality, Men, Born

  "A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth or State of Pennsylvania", September 28, 1776.

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• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  H. Allen Smith

  Monday, Morning, 4th Of July

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