Quotes About Equality

If you want to know a king, see how he treats his defeated foes. All are gracious to their equals; one in a thousand is gracious to an enemy he has conquered.

the real question isn't whether it's bombs versus muskets or wagons versus automobiles. It still comes down to more basic thins like people's right to life, to liberty, and to peacefully enjoy the fruits of their labor.

Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

While I would champion any campaign to support Muslim women who do not wish to cover. I would now also protest vigorously for the right of a woman to wear that covering, if it is what she wants and believes in. Ayatollah Khomeini and Jacques Chirac have much more in common than either of them would care to acknowledge. Each tried to solve overarching social problems by imposing his will on the bodies of women.

But perhaps one day I will be entrusted with daughters of my own, and if so, I swear I will not see their minds molded into society's simpering ideal of womanhood. Oh how I would like to raise writers and artists who would make the world acknowledge what women can do!

it. "You express surprise that I see my future in Canada. Let me tell you: I saw it the day I first crossed the border. I could vote there, you see, when I was still counted three fifths of a man here.

One does not have to be a priest to be a man!

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Delay of justice is injustice.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.