Quotes About Equality

Where two pieties—feminism and multiculturalism—come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.

Multiculturalism rests on the supposition—or better, the dishonest pretense—that all cultures are equal and that no fundamental conflict can arise between the customs, mores, and philosophical outlooks of two different cultures.

Under communism all minorities dance.

If people demand sexual liberty for themselves, but sexual fidelity from others, the result is the inflammation of jealousy, for it is natural to suppose that one is being done by as one is doing to others – and jealousy is the most frequent precipitant of violence between the sexes.

To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity.

The college 'should teach the arts of human intercourse; the art of understanding other people's lives and minds, and the little arts of talk, of dress, of cookery that are allied with them.' Not being a systematic thinker, to put it kindly, Mrs. Woolf here fails to realise that she is proposing to enclose women in precisely the little domestic world from which she also claims to be rescuing them.

A democracy—that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

To make one half the human race consume its energies in the functions of housekeeper, wife and mother is a monstrous waste of the most precious material God ever made.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.

No man is above the law and no man below it.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

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 only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country, is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.