"You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had."

Equality, Rights, Perspective, Fairness

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"You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had."

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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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"Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command."

Mary Douglas, British Scientist

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"Today we must remove distinctions of high and low, rich and poor, caste or creed."

Sardar Patel, Indian Statesman

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"While EQUALITY means no more 'previously disadvantaged' it also means that there should be no 'currently disadvantaged' to replace them."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage."

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"An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free."

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"Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today."

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"If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech."

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"Free elections don't always result in fair elections."

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"A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence."

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"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."

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"The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible."

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"Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race."

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