Equality Quotes - Page 19

• Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Two, Political, Liberty

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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• An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Inalienable Rights

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Love, Country, Money

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Liberty, Details

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women”

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• We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we've got to say: look, we're all in this together. We are human beings.

  David Kaczynski

  Justice, Hatred, Together

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• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

  Bella Abzug

  Jobs, Women, Memorable

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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• Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Eye, Essence

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• We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however, be accorded equality in that they should receive both compassion and respect; it is unworthy of us to exploit them in any way.

  Rebecca Hall

  Respect, Animal, Emotional

  Rebecca Hall (1983). “Animals Are Equal: An Exploration of Animal Consciousness”, HarperCollins

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  It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  Madeleine Albright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Running, Entrepreneur, Unions

  Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.63, Basic Books

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• There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  News conference, 21 Mar. 1962

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• If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Men, Moral

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

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• Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

  Socrates

  Change, Intelligent, Ignorant

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• So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

  Bono

  Rights, Talking, Dignity

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• The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

  James Bovard

  Father, Law, Vision

  "An Interview with James Bovard". "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org. January 25, 2006.

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• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  Jack Kemp

  Opportunity, Political, Mouths

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• All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

  Ashley Montagu

  Life, Education, Individuality

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• For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

  Norman Cousins

  Opposites, Lows, Equal

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• On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Organization, Example, Detours

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• The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

  Herbert Croly

  Civilization, Organization, Achievement

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Law, Justice

  Speech, 28 May 1794, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 4, p. 377

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• People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

  Octavia Butler

  Freedom, Rights, People

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• I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Men, Choices, Decision

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• Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

  David Cameron

  Leadership, Kings, Real

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