Equality Quotes - Page 2

• Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Women, History, Equal

  2017 speech at the University of Michigan, www.chicagotribune.com. January 30, 2017.

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• Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

  Aristotle

  Equal Treatment, Persons, Treatment

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3136, Delphi Classics

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  A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Degrees, Politics

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• Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Quality, Threatened

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• The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Powerful, Suffering, Done

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

  David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

  Opportunity, Talent, Prove

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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

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

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• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Freedom, Patriotic

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, p. 111, 1965.

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Liberty, Fraternity, Teach

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• Men are born equal but they are also born different.

  Erich Fromm

  Respect, Men, Diversity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Society, Politics

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33

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• In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Race, Order, Racism

  University of California Regents v. Bakke (opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part) (1978)

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• Virtue can only flourish among equals.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Virtue, Equal, Equality Of People

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• The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Justice, Doctrine, Poison

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• I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

  Paul Dirac

  Two, Trying, Would Be

  Paul Dirac's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1933.

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• While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Class, Diversity, Soul

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918

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  IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

  Emma Watson

  Two, Feminist, Feminism

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• There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Freedom, America, Slavery

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, Part I, 1835.

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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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• 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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• More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Reality, Sisterhood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Voltaire

  Powerful, Citizens, May

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

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• That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Literature, Ordinary

  Proper Studies (1927) "The Idea of Equality"

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• Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

  Mason Cooley

  Kings, Giving, Crowns

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