3 December 2020 Friedrich August von Hayek Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality – an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
3 December 2020 Carl Schurz From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
3 December 2020 Alice S. Rossi Demands for equality for women are threats to men’s self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
3 December 2020 Michelle Bachelet Educational equality doesn’t guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and ‘leaky pipelines’ that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.
3 December 2020 Christine Gregoire I want to work on respecting individuals’ dignity. Equal rights, that’s where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that’s what we need.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry 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.
3 December 2020 Leland Stanford The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton The word ‘equality’ shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it’s not the American way.
3 December 2020 John O. Brennan Where terrorists offer injustice, disorder and destruction, the United States and its allies stand for freedom, fairness, equality, hope, and opportunity.
3 December 2020 Thomas Malthus In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
3 December 2020 George Orwell No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
3 December 2020 Eric Liu In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
3 December 2020 Tom G. Palmer Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
3 December 2020 Betty Buckley 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.
3 December 2020 Evo Morales The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody – but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
3 December 2020 Charles de Secondat As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
3 December 2020 Tarja Halonen The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
