“Virtue can only flourish among equals.”
Topic
equality
268 quotes
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“People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.”
“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.”
“Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.”
“All imaginable futures are not equally possible.”
“Nobody really believes in equality anyway.”
“I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.”
“I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.”
“All men are born equally free.”
“I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.”
“Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.”
“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”
“We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.”
“Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.”
“Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.”
“Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.”
“Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.”
“I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality.”
“The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.”
“I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.”
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”