"Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport."

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"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."

Robert Toombs, American Politician

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"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."

Arthur Ashe, American Athlete

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"I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."

Mary Douglas, British Scientist

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"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

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"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary

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"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

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"You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"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."

James Bovard, American Author

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"The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them."

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"May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure."

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"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."

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"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history."

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"Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes."

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"In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty."

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"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will."

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"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."

"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."

"I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness."

"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."

"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."

"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."

"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."

"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."

"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."

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"The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them."

"May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure."

"For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment."

"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object."

"Sport must be accessible to working class youth."

"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."

"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history."

"Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes."

"In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty."

"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will."