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Equality Quotes
"I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done."
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"Love has no form, no color and is certainly not prejudice or judgmental."
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"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall."
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"In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption."
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"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
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"The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever."
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"If we push hard now, this next wave can be the last wave. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."
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"In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children."
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"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."
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"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."
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"You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else."
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"Amelie said, "I won't be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals. She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. "Now defend what is ours, my partner. He grinned, grinned! and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked."
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"For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love."
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"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
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"The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned."
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"People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged."
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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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"It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor."
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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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"The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb."
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"Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal."
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"Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship."
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"I'm not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation I'm making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen."
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"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice."
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"Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man."
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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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"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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"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."
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"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."
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"I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there."
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"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity."
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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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"It is "humanism" that should run in the veins of the thinking humanity, not a certain gender-oriented "ism". This entire book is a treatise on gender equality, and as such, it may be hailed as a work of feminism, but it is not - it is a work of humanism."
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