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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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"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."
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"More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development."
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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."
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"In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words."
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"Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations."
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"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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"Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it."
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"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."
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"Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions."
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"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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"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
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"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."
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"All sports must be treated on the basis of equality."
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"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."
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"Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a number of entangled jealousies. It is, legally speaking, every aptitude having the same opportunity for a career; politically all consciences having the same right. Equality has an organ, gratuitous and compulsory education. We must begin with the right to the alphabet."
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"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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"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
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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."
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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."
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"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."
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"Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all."
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"I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias."
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"Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view."
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"On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn."
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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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"Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them."
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"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."
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