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In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.
Sep 10, 2025
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral.
when women progress, all of society benefits.
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
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.
Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.
How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?
No one really believes in equality who's on top.
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.
The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
In 1965, I marched for equality.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
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.
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
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.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.
I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are supreme and are served by the elite of the most talented men.