Equality Quotes

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If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force… — Tibor R. Machan
All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow. — H. L. Mencken
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that… — H. L. Mencken
Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having… — Reinhold Niebuhr
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be… — George Bernard Shaw
Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent… — L. Neil Smith
The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be… — James Fitzjames Stephen
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been… — Clarence Thomas
I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis… — Clarence Thomas
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men… — Paul Valery
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is… — Woodrow Wilson
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality. — William Rehnquist
The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom. — Robert Cheeke
Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.'… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or… — Rosa Parks
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the… — Frederick Douglass
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its… — Nelson Mandela

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