Equality Quotes - Page 24

• Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Hate, Mean, Men

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• If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Work Relationships, Justice, Balance

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• Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Humanity

  Calvin Coolidge (1929). “Mr. Coolidge's Address on Secondary Education”

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• There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Men, Liberty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.973, Library of Alexandria

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• And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

  Ed Miliband

  Thinking, Government, Glowing

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

  Charles Kingsley

  Justice, Ants, Should

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's.

  Murray Rothbard

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  "Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition".

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• While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Men, Egalitarianism

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Law, Egalitarianism

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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• The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Mean, Color, Guarantees

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• The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Heart, Opportunity

  "Capitalism and Freedom". Book by Milton Friedman, Ch. 12 "The Alleviation of Poverty", 1962.

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• If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Women Empowerment, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

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• We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Children, Justice

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• All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.

  George Mason

  Mean, Independent, Men

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• On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

  Emanuel Celler

  Hands, Law, Practice

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

  Berthe Morisot

  Men, Thinking, Treated

  Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.203, Univ of California Press

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• No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Rights, Ideas, People

  "Foundations of the Republic; Speeches and Addresses". Book by Calvin Coolidge, 1926.

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• The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Giving, Perspective, Needs

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• The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

  Robert Bork

  Law, Purpose, Separation

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Slavery, Individual

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• True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Justice, Liberty

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• If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of violence. … That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself.

  Laverne Cox

  Inspiring, People, Violence

  "Laverne Cox Talks to TIME About the Transgender Movement". Interview with Katy Steinmetz, time.com. May 29, 2014.

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• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  H. Allen Smith

  Monday, Morning, 4th Of July

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  I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Strong Women, Independent

  "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

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• If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

  David Eugene Edwards

  Mean, Men, Differences

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