Quotes About Equality

And don't let anyone trick you into playing bass. The world's got enough chick bass players Seriously, though. Why play bass when you can play guitar?

When, on his return to Lud-in-the-Mist, he had been twitted for having wasted so much time on such an unworthy object, he had answered that a pig was thrall to the same master as a Mayor, and that it needed as much skill to cure the one as the other; adding that a good fiddler enjoys fiddling for its own sake, and that it is all the same to him whether he plays at a yokel's wedding or a merchant's funeral.

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

An equality of nation will never exist in our lifetime. Why? Because peace, freedom, and justice are deceptive concepts. Hidden beneath their surface are the instincts of the peking order.

He is a human being in kid's clothing. He has the organs and the feeling of his species, but none of the rights. And he is not alone. This country is stewing itself in the notion that you're not a person until you reach voting and drinking age. It's wrong. You don't get it, Doctor (with all due respect), and because you don't get it you can't give it. Let him go home. He isn't crazy, he isn't even strange. We have met the enemy, and he is us.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

There is a mighty interconnection in man's struggle for freedom, a singleness of purpose and endeavor which binds together those who struggle for human liberation, whatever land they live in, whatever tongue they speak, whatever race bears them.

The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except—hey presto!—when the protagonist feels like getting laid. Especially common in science fiction; apparently many writers assume that in the future women will die out.

Remember: blonde, brunette, and redhead are not personality types.

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

I don't say that all people have equal talent," Kennedy told his crowd of supporters. "But what I do say is that everyone should have their chance to develop their talent equally.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope," Kennedy famously said in a speech delivered in South Africa in 1966 to condemn apartheid as well as the discrimination in his own country. "Crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.