Quotes About Equality

Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got, why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

There is no respect of persons with God.

We're half the people, we should be half the Congress.

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

[My father] said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.

As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.