"Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours."

Equality, Enjoyment, Prosperity, Right

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"Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours."

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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

Equality, America, Battle, Dying, Fighting

"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

Equality, Needs

"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

Equality, Men, Women, Opportunity

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

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary

Equality, Lie, Fraud, Freedom

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

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

Equality, Women, Leadership, Representation

"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

Equality, Love, Rights, Community

"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

Equality, Vision, Fathers, Founding

"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

Equality, Wealth, Rules

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

Sardar Patel, Indian Statesman

Equality, Social Justice, Caste, Community

"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

Equality, Justice, Balance, Change

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"Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic."

Cause

"They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories."

Politics

"With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature."

Nature

"They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world."

Competition

"Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments."

Government

"Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government."

Government

"Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war."

War

"We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands."

Fear

"Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred."

Power

"We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred."

Power