Equality Quotes - Page 13

• Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

  Kathleen Parker

  Pregnancy, Men, Feminist

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• How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Harbour, Inferiors, Mines

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.57, A&C Black

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• I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States

  Hideki Tojo

  Japan, Principles, United States

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• Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Barristers, Should, Payment

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• I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.

  Richard Jefferies

  Business, Lying, Animal

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• To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Animal, Should Have, Years

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• . . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family. . . . The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Horse, Men

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• No man has ever been born a Negro hater,
  a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater.
  Nature refuses to be involved in such
  suicidal practices.

  Harry Bridges

  Suicidal, Men, Practice

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• How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

  Frances Wright

  Mean, Exercise, Men

  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.26

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• Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, the infinitely variable appearance of an indivisible Whole.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Life, Men, Suffering

  Christmas Humphreys (1969). “An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers”

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• As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Life, Brother, Learning

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• Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

  John Fowles

  Life, Attitude, Men

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• The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

  Leland Stanford

  Sex, Rights, Political

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• Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

  Dorothy Thompson

  Home, Men, Race

  Dorothy Thompson (1939). “Let the Record Speak”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Elephants, Needs, Thousand

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Wise, Morning, Men

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• There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

  Ken Livingstone

  Law, Needs, Development

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• Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Class, Differences, Trying

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.140, Hackett Publishing

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• Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

  Mike Rogers

  Teamwork, Spirit, Helping

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• I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

  Agnes Macphail

  Home, Angel, Men

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• The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

  Tarja Halonen

  Strong, Justice, Goal

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• The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Men, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.75, Rajpal & Sons

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• Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

  Plato

  Justice, Suffering, Disgraceful

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• By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.

  Cato the Younger

  Art, Hurt, Men

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• Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Important, Trade, Nations

  "Americas summit ends in stalemate / U.S. vision for free-trade zone thwarted by 5 of 34 nations; no date for more talks" by Patrick J. McDonnell, Edwin Chen, www.sfgate.com. November 6, 2005.

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