Equality Quotes - Page 28

• Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

  Robert Toombs

  Giving, Expansion, Prosperity

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

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• The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

  Max Eastman

  Real, Liberty, Triumph

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• There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

  Aime Cesaire

  Victory, Rooms, Rendezvous

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• The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Discovery, Cost, Speech

  "Robert Browning". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship equal rights and a common destiny for all.
  A government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Pursuit Of Happiness, Destiny

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• There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

  Harry Bridges

  War, Fighting, People

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• I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cute, Smart, Mean

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• Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.

  Paula Nelson

  Home, Battle, Roles

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• The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

  Paul Martin

  Country, Doors, Differences

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• All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

  John Locke

  Independent, Men, Liberty

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• In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Home, Men

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• nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Daughter, Sex, Son

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• "All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Law, Born

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.362, Rajpal & Sons

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• An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are supreme and are served by the elite of the most talented men.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Egalitarianism, Intellectual

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• Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

  Mason Cooley

  Facts, Inequality, Values

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• A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

  John Foster Dulles

  Capacity, Indispensable, Hold Fast

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• Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spy, Slavery, Prison

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• The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Cutting, Circles, Lines

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• When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  World, Earth, Path

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• Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest inconsistencies on the one hand, or running into the most arrant absurdities on the other?

  Angelina Grimke

  Running, Men, Hands

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• [My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

  P. D. James

  Father, Skills, Made

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• You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Want, Impossible

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.148, Delphi Classics

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• One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Differences, One Man

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love: Top Novelist Focus”, p.108, 谷月社

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• Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Responsibility, Differences

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• Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Strong, Fall

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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