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Equality Quotes
"Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition."
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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 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 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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"Women have a role to play in global development."
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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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"While EQUALITY means no more 'previously disadvantaged' it also means that there should be no 'currently disadvantaged' to replace them."
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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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"One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man."
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"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."
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"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."
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"And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so."
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"As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in."
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"The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union."
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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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"Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag."
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"There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant."
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"It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people."
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"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
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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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"You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest."
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"I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality."
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"We are a model country where gender equality is concerned."
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"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism."
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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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"Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children."
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"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality."
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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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"When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s."
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"The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess."
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"The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."
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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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