269 private quotes tagged equality

“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.” — Barry Goldwater

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“Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.” — Peggy Noonan

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“Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.” — Janez Drnovsek

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“Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.” — Mary Douglas

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“People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.” — Linda Ellerbee

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“A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Virtue can only flourish among equals.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.” — James M. Barrie

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“Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.” — Simone Weil

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“You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.” — Samuel Alito

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“For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.” — Katy Perry

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“I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.” — Rick Warren

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“Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.” — Allen West

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“I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.” — W.C. Fields

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“Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.” — Charlize Theron

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“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

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“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

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“The sole equality on earth is death.” — Philip James Bailey

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“We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.” — Andrea Dworkin

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“The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.” — Joan Jett

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“It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.” — Herodotus

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“Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.” — Zachary Quinto

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