Quotes by Equality The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles. Benjamin Cardozo erosionequalityliberty Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. Benjamin Tucker equalitylibertyuse Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. Bernadette Devlin equalitychurchmother We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat. Bernard Baruch shipsequalitywisdom I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they. Berthe Morisot equalitymenthinking For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family. Bertrand Russell equalityracethinking In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. Bertrand Russell equalitymenamerica Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal. Bess Streeter Aldrich equalitysightmen The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential. Betty Buckley equalityracegiving The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. Betty Friedan equalitywomencreative In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words. Bianca Jagger equalitylawdream If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds Bill Moyers equalitymedia-controlthinking All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. Bob Dylan equalityworkdeath You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else. Bono equalitycommitmentideas So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. Bono equalityrightstalking To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals. Brigid Brophy equalityshould-haveanimal American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. Bryant H. McGill true-meaningamerican-societyequality No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors. Calvin Coolidge equalityrightsideas Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God. Calvin Coolidge brotherhood-of-manequalitymen The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens. Camille Paglia equalityblockbeautiful«1234567891011»
