Quotes by Equality Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth. Reinhold Niebuhr equalitylightviews God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements. Rex Stout equalitywould-betrying I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work. Ralph Waldo Emerson equalitymenbelieve I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons. Richard Jefferies equalitybusinesslying If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Richard M. Nixon equalitymusicbeautiful Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow. Ralph Waldo Emerson equalitytomorrowtoday Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. Ralph Waldo Emerson equalityproblemcourage The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. Robert Bork equalitypurposelaw Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself. Ralph Waldo Emerson pedestalequalitytogether I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers. Robert Breault equalitystrugglepeople There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. Robert Green Ingersoll equalitymothermen 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 equalityhonestygovernment 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 equalitychangemen To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long. Robert M. Hensel equalitylongfirsts In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter. Robert M. Hensel equalitydiversitydark The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. Robert Mugabe equalitytakencountry Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty. Robert Owen equalitywomenrights The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference. Robert Reich equalityopportunityphilosophy The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. Robert Toombs equalityindependentgovernment Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. Robert Toombs expansionequalitygiving«1920212223242526272829»
