Quotes about Equality

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“Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.”
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“Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.”
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“We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.”
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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
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“By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.”
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“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
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“Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.”
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“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”
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“She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.”
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“Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort.”
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“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
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“All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.”
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“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”
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“Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.”
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“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”
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“The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.”
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“The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.”
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“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.”
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“What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.”
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“There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.”
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“An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.”
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“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”
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“It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.”
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“I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.”
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