Equality Quotes - Page 27

• The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.

  H. L. Mencken

  Kind, Annoying, Imagine

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• All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

  H. L. Mencken

  Equal, Denied, Asks

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• I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Philosophy, Believe, Race

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• We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Jobs, Believe

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• There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Men, Differences

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• Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

  William James

  Success, Self Esteem, Congratulations

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• How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?

  Emma Watson

  Half, World, Welcome

  Emma Watson's Speech on Gender Equality at the United Nations, www.thoughtco.com. February 26, 2018.

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• Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

  John Stuart Mill

  Tolerance, Suffering, Mankind

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.27

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• It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

  Michael Kinsley

  Would Be, Recipes, Way

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• Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Fighting, Games, Losing

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• I might not be the same, but that's not important/No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it

  William J. Clinton

  Inspiring, Gay, Support

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• All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Born, Equal

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• Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

  William Dean Howells

  Heart, Liberty, Economics

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.6151, Delphi Classics

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• Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Yugoslavia, Community, Multinationals

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• We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Opportunity, Literature, Equality Of Opportunity

  "Mind the Gap". Book by Ferdinand Mount, 2004.

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• I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.

  James Bryce

  Thinking, Rights, Liberty

  James Bryce Bryce (1888). “The American Commonwealth”, Ams PressInc

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• We grant no dukedoms to the few,
  We hold like rights and shall;
  Equal on Sunday in the pew,
  On Monday in the mall.
  For what avail the plough or sail,
  Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Monday, Freedom, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Doe, Dignity

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, p. 79, 1960.

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• It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

  Lord Acton

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.9, VM eBooks

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• A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cities, Voice, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.240, Hackett Publishing

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• Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fraternity, Spoiled, Clamor

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Sex, Taken, America

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

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• Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

  Rufus Choate

  Numbers, Law, Justice

  Rufus Choate (1883). “Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate”

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• Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.

  Medea Benjamin

  Teamwork, Positivity, Opportunity

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• To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Racism, Lines, Creeds

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

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