Equality Quotes

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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… — Thomas Malthus
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great… — Tran ?uc Luong
Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting… — Vladimir Kramnik
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings… — Michael Kinsley
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking? — Krzysztof Kieslowski
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity… — Joe Baca
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty… — Gerry Adams
Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies… — Samuel Adams
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny… — Tammy Bruce
The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his… — Pat Buchanan
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things. — Edmund Burke
There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory. — Aime Cesaire
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and… — Rufus Choate
In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish. — Heinrich Heine
Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is… — Eric Hoffer
A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person,… — Thomas Jefferson
I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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