Equality Quotes - Page 25

• Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

  Charles de Gaulle

  Passion, Want, Way

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• When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Giving Up, Home, Heart

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• . . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

  Gertrude Stein

  Animal, Men, Differences

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.46, Vintage

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• It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

  Ruth Harrison

  Animal, Men, Impossible

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• Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Men, Hyenas, Ethics

  "Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism" by Victoria Moran, (p. 32), 1985.

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• Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Character, Liberty, Important

  Speech to the American Bar Association, September 02, 1925.

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• Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Integrity, Self, Double Standard

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Oct 25, 2013

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• The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

  Lyman Trumbull

  Rights, Punishment, Class

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• The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Justice, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and they harm nothing. They are what we should be. I don't know if we'll ever get there.

  Pat Derby

  Loyalty, Whales, Play

  Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books

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• In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Health Education, Looks

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• The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Erosion, Liberty, Principles

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• Law and justice are not always the same.

  Gloria Steinem

  Law, Justice, Battered Women

  "Open Secrets : Ninety-four Women in Touch with Our Time". Book by Barbaralee Diamonstein, 1972.

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• Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Careers, Voice, People

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• To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Alice Paul

  Ordinary, Complicated, Equal Rights

  "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.

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• Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.

  Benedetto Croce

  Party, Expression, People

  Benedetto Croce (1942). “Freedom: Its Meaning”

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• Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth;
  it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy
  that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Able, Doe, Employment

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• One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

  Claude Pepper

  Democracy

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• A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

  Hjalmar Branting

  Humanity, Doe, Use

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• Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  Sun Yat-sen

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Democracies Have

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• Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

  Alice S Rossi

  Self Esteem, Men, Demand

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• Self-defense is a part of the law of nature;
  nor can it be denied the community,
  even against the king himself.

  William Barclay

  Kings, Self, Law

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• Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Passion, Liberty

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Disability, Individual

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.201, Best Books on

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• Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race.

  Clarence Thomas

  Law, Race, Government

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