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Equality Quotes
"More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development."
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"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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"Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations."
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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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"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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"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
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"Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions."
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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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"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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"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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"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
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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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"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."
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"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
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"Socialism values equality more than liberty."
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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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"Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation."
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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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"Isn't it strange that having a dick automatically makes you a man, but having a vagina isn't enough to make me a woman?"
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"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity."
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"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."
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"On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family."
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"We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens."
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"The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way."
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"Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice."
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"I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl."
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"The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality."
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"All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot."
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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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