Unequal Quotes

123 quotes by 110 authors

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. — Jonathan Kozol
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's… — Jonathan Kozol
The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is… — Lawrence M. Krauss
I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and… — Frances O'Grady
Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may… — David Ricardo
There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new… — David Simon
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. — Earl Warren
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why… — Walt Whitman
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are… — Matthew Scully
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. — Lorrie Moore
...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. — Shulamith Firestone
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only… — Thomas Sowell
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. — Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it. — Aleister Crowley
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the… — Kathryn Stockett
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. — Jared Diamond
For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love. — Soren Kierkegaard

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