Equality Quotes

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Gloria Steinem: “Women have convinced ourselves that we can do what men can do. But we haven't convinced ourselves and therefore haven't convinced our country, that men can do what women can do.”

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Anna Garlin Spencer: “Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.”

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: “Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.”

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Betty Ford: “The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.”

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Anna Garlin Spencer: “Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.”

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Susan B. Anthony: “No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.”

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Frances Fox Piven: “I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.”

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.”

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George Sand: “Equality is not similarity. Equal merit does not mean that one is suited to the same tasks.”

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Carl Schurz: “From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's interests without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”

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Thomas Mann: “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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Thomas Paine: “ I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.”

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Eleanor Smeal: “Just think -- guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”

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Howard Zinn: “Is there equality before the law? At every stage of the judicial process--facing the policeman, appearing in court, being freed on bond, being sentenced by the judge--the poor person is treated worse than the rich, the black treated worse than the white, the politically or personally odd character is treated worse than the orthodox.”

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Arthur Ashe: “You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.”

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Anna Garlin Spencer: “The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become. ”

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Lillian Hellman: “No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.”

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Marlo Thomas: “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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Bella Abzug: “Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.”

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Rowan D. Williams: “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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Lucy Stone: “We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.” more

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G. K. Chesterton: “The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.”

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Anna Quindlen: “Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? 'Keep her,' I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.”

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C. S. Lewis: “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

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Anatole France: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

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Jane Addams: “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”

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Gloria Steinem: “This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.”

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Henri-Frederic Amiel: “Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.”

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