Equality Quotes

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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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• Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.

  Remi Kanazi

  Death, Running, Peace

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  I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Race, People, Humanity

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

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Egalitarianism, Deep Thought

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• The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Race, Differences

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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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• Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

  Malcolm X

  Knowledge, Thinking, African American

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• Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Rights, Special

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• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  Frances Wright

  Inspirational, Community, Soul

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.25

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• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Friendship, Happy

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

  Aristotle

  Witty, Men, Law

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• When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sun, Sun Rise

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• I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspiring, Leadership, Freedom

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• We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

  Bernard Baruch

  Wisdom, Ships, Boat

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• The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.

  Sophia Loren

  Men, Feet, Ribs

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  Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Patriotic, Differences, Democracies Have

  "Discours prononcé à l'assemblée constituante le 12 Septembre 1848 sur la question du droit au travail". Oeuvres complètes, Volume IX, p. 546, 1866.

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• It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Wise, Men, Said

  Dennis v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1950)

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• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

  Shirley Chisholm

  Girl, Emotional, Doctors

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

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• To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Alaska, Race

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.101, Modern Library

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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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• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  Barry Goldwater

  Father, Differences, Creative

  Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco

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• In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

  Anatole France

  Peace, Anger, Sleep

  "The Red Lily". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Fairness, Asks

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.57, Wildside Press LLC

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• Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Men, Differences

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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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