Quotes by Equality Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all. Robert Warshow equalityissuespolitical Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. Ronald Takaki equalitytimememories The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't. Rosie O'Donnell equalityreligiousbelieve Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. Rowan Williams rewardsequalityway Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law. Rufus Choate equalitylawnumbers All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. Rudyard Kipling equalitydiversitypeople I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. Ruth Bader Ginsburg equalitychoicesmen The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. Ruth Bader Ginsburg equalitywomenmean It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals. Ruth Harrison equalityanimalmen There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. Saint Augustine equalitysaintpast All men are born equally free. Salmon P. Chase equalitybornmen Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech. Samuel Alito equalityspeechreligious Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all? Samuel Adams equalityambitionblessing Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. Samuel Johnson equalityanimalhappiness Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability. Sandra Day O'Connor equalityresponsibilityopportunity Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. Samuel Johnson equalitydiseasedeath An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust. Sarah Moore Grimke equalitywallsex [On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality. Sarah Moore Grimke innocenceequalitystories It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. Samuel Johnson egalitarianismequalityhappiness It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. Samuel Johnson equalitytwopeople«2021222324252627282930»
