"The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."

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"The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."

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"Let's not judge people by the color of their skin but those who makes us feel we are different from each other.- Abdulazeez Henry Musa."

Abdulazeez Henry Musa, Nigerian Author

Equality, Race, Judgment, Difference

"I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart, blood and veins). I am only human, and the human race is the only race in which I am an active participant - mind, body and soul."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Equality, Humanity, Unity, Identity

"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Equality, Justice, Man, Mercy

"Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Equality, Justice, Pride, Ego

"There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Equality, Gender, Strength, Truth

"No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Equality, Humanity, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"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

Equality, America, Battle, Dying, Fighting

"I have a little moral trouble with the term "mankind, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term "humanity over it, and the term "human over "man."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Equality, Truth, Power, Regret, Inspirational

"Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice."

Anne Campbell, English Politician

Equality, Care, Choice, Country

"Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, "Gentlemen, let's proceed," and sensing Ellie's frown would add, "Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys." The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Equality, Gender, Respect, Recognition

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"In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge."

Morality, Content, Democracy, Law

"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."

Constitution, Court, Law, Opinions

"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance."

Religion, Science, Atheism, Religious

"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."

Constitution, Right

"The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left."

Change, Congress, Constitution, Court

"The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."

Equality, Purpose, Being, Law

"An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement."

Achievement, Reward

"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."

Society, Chaos, Laws, Network

"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."

Fashion, Law

"Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere."

Nature, Ideas, Constitution, Judges