Equality Quotes - Page 15

• It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral.

  Marietta Holley

  Men, Thinking, Blood

  Marietta Holley (1875). “My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book”, p.113

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• All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Creator, Urges

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• The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

  Will Rogers

  Color, Matter, Lord

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Would Be, Way, Ruins

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• The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Knowing, Years

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• What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

  Ernestine Rose

  Rights, Liberty, What Is Life

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.

  Prince Philip

  Thinking, Ends, Planets

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• There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Race, Destined

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• I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.293, Harvard University Press

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• Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Mean, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

  Hjalmar Branting

  League, Giving, Vote

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• We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

  Jerry Brown

  Creative, Community, Challenges

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• The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

  Betty Buckley

  Race, Giving, Essentials

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• Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

  Mary Douglas

  Strong, Thinking, Wealth

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• In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

  Bianca Jagger

  Dream, Law, Paris

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• Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Doe, Economic

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.273, Rajpal & Sons

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• Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Responsibility, Liberty, Bread

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• What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dwarves, Rights, Giants

  Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”

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• In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

  Thomas Malthus

  Simple, Virtue, Economy

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.16, eKitap Projesi

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• Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?

  Samuel Adams

  Ambition, Blessing, Men

  Speech in the State House of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com. August 01, 1776.

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• Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs, and to incur no civil disabilities because of his choice.

  Joseph Leon Blau

  Religious, Mean, Choices

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• The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.

  Ida Tarbell

  Men, Important, Doe

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• So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Strength, Money, Women

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• In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Thinking, Race

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• I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Party, Heart, Pride

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