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Equality Quotes
"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance."
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"The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality."
106
"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."
99
"In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words."
98
"Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations."
95
"Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it."
93
"Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century."
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"More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development."
83
"Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions."
55
"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."
53
"All sports must be treated on the basis of equality."
50
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
48
"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."
46
"Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings."
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"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
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"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."
44
"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."
44
"I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value."
42
"For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black."
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"The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?"
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"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."
40
"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."
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"Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition."
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"No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels."
38
"Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic."
36
"Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else."
36
"Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all."
36
"Love has no form, no color and is certainly not prejudice or judgmental."
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