“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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“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”
“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”
“The battle for women's rights has been largely won.”
“A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.”
“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.”
“Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”
“To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.”
“I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.”
“The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.”
“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.”
“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.”
“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
“Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.”
“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.”
“If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.”
“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”
“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
“More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.”
“Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.”
“Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.”
“Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.”