3 December 2020 Mason Cooley As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
3 December 2020 Harlan Stone Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
3 December 2020 Robert Toombs The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
3 December 2020 Sean Connery I’ve always been hopeful about Scotland’s prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.
3 December 2020 Maximilien Robespierre Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Tucker Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
3 December 2020 Ken Livingstone There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson 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.
3 December 2020 Pope John XXIII The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson 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.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
3 December 2020 Adam Clayton Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
3 December 2020 Marlo Thomas In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bunch Women have a lot to say about how to advance women’s rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
3 December 2020 James Bovard The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
3 December 2020 James M. Barrie His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
3 December 2020 Marlo Thomas One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
3 December 2020 Zachary Quinto Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
3 December 2020 Marc Morial Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
3 December 2020 Theodore Bikel I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
3 December 2020 Matt Bomer Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that’s not where equality comes from.
3 December 2020 Hjalmar Branting A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
3 December 2020 Plato Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
3 December 2020 Connie Chung I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren’t. And it’s just not – there is no equality there.
3 December 2020 Barry Goldwater 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.
