Equality Quotes - Page 26

• The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Justice, Shapes, Cases

  Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.215

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• Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

  L. Neil Smith

  Law, Each Day, Neighbor

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• I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Mean, Might

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• Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.

  Alistair Cooke

  Men, Law, Firsts

  Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Crush, Men, Evil

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• One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.

  Xunzi

  Confused, Differences, People

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• There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

  Warren E. Burger

  Racism, Majority, Different

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• Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type

  Fran Lebowitz

  Strong, Men, Silent

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.157, Vintage

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• Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Eggs, Where You Are, Womb

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• Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

  Florence King

  Home, Unique, America

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Light, Views, People

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• I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.

  Clarence Thomas

  Believe, Race, Government

  Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

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• Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

  Paul Valery

  Men, People, Liberty

  Regards sur le Monde Actuel (1931)

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• For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Race, Justice

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• We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, Helping Others, Thinking

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• You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Friendship, Real Friends, Term

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.381, NYU Press

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• The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women, Government, Use

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

  John Dewey

  Economy, Term, Aim

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• A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

  Barbara Jordan

  Peace, Destiny, Ubuntu

  Barbara Jordan (1999). “Barbara C. Jordan--selected Speeches”

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• How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

  Barbara Jordan

  Keys, Creating, People

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• We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

  Josephine Baker

  War, Army, Shows

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• Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Inspirational, Women, Fighting

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• We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.

  Ralph Bunche

  Strong, Soul, Preparation

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• Animals have their tragic and their comic side, and resemble us in many ways. They, too, have their distinctions and individualities. Many people believe that there is a huge gap separating them from the animals, but it is only really a step in the Wheel of Life, for we are all children of the One. To understand a fellow creature, we must regard him as a brother.

  Manfred Kyber

  Brother, Children, Believe

  Manfred Kyber (1967). “Among animals: the collected animal stories”

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• I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Liberty, Phrases

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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