Quotes by Equality However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit. Alexis de Tocqueville equalitypridetrying The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. Alexis de Tocqueville equalitybusinessmen The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth. Alexis de Tocqueville egalitarianismequalityimagination 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 equalitytakensex No one really believes in equality who's on top. Alice Duer Miller equalitybelieve I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. Alice Paul equalitywomenrights To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. Alice Paul equalitycomplicatedordinary As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept. No rule of nature or of social organization says that the sexes have to be the same or do the same things in order to be social, political and economic equals. Alice S Rossi equalityordersex Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf. Alice S Rossi equalityself-esteemmen until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere. Alison Roberta Noble Neilans equalitylawmen 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 equalitylawmen In 1965, I marched for equality. Alphonso Jackson equality marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World. Alva Myrdal equalityhomechildren A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. Andrea Dworkin equalitybecomingcommitment I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality. Andrew Cuomo prudentequalitybelieve 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 equalityrunningmen 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 equalityhelping-othersbelieve whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other. Anna Brownell Jameson equalitymensex Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better. Anna Chennault equalityspecialopportunity A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value. Anna Howard Shaw equalitywomengentleman«1234567891011»
