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• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

  Aristotle

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.131, Aristotle

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• If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Men, Color

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

  Marlo Thomas

  Women, Feminist, Heartless

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• Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

  Khalil Gibran

  And Love, Generations, Woe

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• Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

  Jenny Shipley

  Sisterhood, Views, Development

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• The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

  Charles Fourier

  Women, Sisterhood, Rights

  Theory of Four Movements vol. 2, ch. 4 (1808)

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• Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

  Mary Douglas

  Real, Frustrated, Doe

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• We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

  Lionel Trilling

  Sense Of Humor, Progressive, Poor

  1950 The Liberal Imagination,'Princess Casamassima'.

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• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

  Simone Weil

  Degrees, Needs, Attention

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.224, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Factions

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus”, p.88

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• We are all alike, on the inside.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Humanity, Hero Worship

  Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers

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• There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Honesty, Government, Rags

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Herman E. Kittredge (1909). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

  Iris Murdoch

  Cry

  The Observer, September 13, 1987.

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• Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

  Aristotle

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

  "Politics" by Aristotle, Book V, (1301a.29-31),

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• I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

  Anne Hathaway

  Girl, Women, Believe

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• Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

  Simone Weil

  Beauty, Men, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Mean, Agency, Rights

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.36, Cato Institute

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• The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Struggle, Past, Long

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ann Dexter Gordon (1997). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866”, p.485, Rutgers University Press

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• No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

  George Orwell

  Reform, Literature, Revolution

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

  Kofi Annan

  Goal, Challenges, Development

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sole equality on earth is death.

  Philip James Bailey

  Earth, Sole

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.110

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• We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Equal

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Bases, Treated

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• An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

  Ignazio Silone

  Men, Law, Practice

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• The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Desire, Reform

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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