Quotes About Equality

I mean, if we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Rated G is nobody gets the girl. PG is the good guy gets the girl. R is the bad guy gets the girl. XXX is everybody gets the girl.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

The day is past when women want to spend hours and hours in the kitchen. They like to get out and do things.

Death is not warden of life, not thief, nor enemy — but Life's most equal partner.

The disappearance of class distinctions is, however, far from complete. In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. There is on this subject a profound and widespread hypocrisy whenever people talk in general terms.

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Before God we are relatively all equally wise — equally foolish.

All men are created equal, then a few become firemen.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

But freedom is not enough.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.

Democ'acy gives every man The right to be his own oppressor...

If the English language had been properly organised by a businessman or Member of Parliament, then there would be a word which meant both "he" and "she", and I could write, "If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis", which would save a lot of trouble.

The butterfly upon the sky, who doesn't know its name, And hasn't any tax to pay, and hasn't any home, Is just as high as you and I, and higher, I believe – So soar away and never sigh, for that's the way to grieve.

Burn, burn all the books which teach hatred! Exalt labor and love! Let us create rational human beings, capable of crushing under foot the futile magnificence of barbaric glories, and of resisting those blood ambitions of nationalism and imperialism which have crushed their brothers.

No one is born hating another person... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

End discrimination. Hate everybody.

This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

— My sexual orientation? Horizontal, usually. — I can't even think straight. — Let's get one thing straight, I'm not. — Straight But Not Narrow — Closets are for clothes. — I'm not a lesbian but my girlfriend is. — I'm not gay but my boyfriend is. — Equal rights are not special rights. — Homophobia is a social disease. — My sexual preference is often.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.