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Equality Quotes
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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. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
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, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. (Quote by - Robert Ingersoll)
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. (Quote by - Agnes Macphail)
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men. (Quote by - John Randolph)
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. (Quote by - Ralph Bunche)
The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. (Quote by - Henry Becque)
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. (Quote by - Robert F. Kennedy)
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. (Quote by - Aristotle)
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. (Quote by - Arthur Ashe)
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 (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities. (Quote by - Paul Burton)
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. (Quote by - Tocqueville)