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Quotes About Equality

Between men and women, as Jenny Fields once said, only death is shared equally.
~ John Irving
a school-vacation skier is never the equal to a north-country native.
~ John Irving
Between men and women," as Jenny Fields once said, "only death is shared equally.
~ John Irving
There was more than a hint of distaste in Roberta's references to homosexuals, and Garp thought it strange that people in the process of making a decision that will plant them firmly in a minority, forever, are possibly less tolerant of other minorities than we might imagine.
~ John Irving
We don't think us and them. It's just you, versus everyone else. No one else matters.
~ John Jackson Miller
emancipation
~ John Jakes
Every colored person in this country is enslaved to the fears of whites and to the way those fears influence white behavior.
~ John Jakes
Had she been guided by some unexpressed belief that Negroes were somehow unfit for a white woman to touch? She didn't know, but this moment in the gray morning jarred her to awareness. Rosalie felt no different from any other child hurting.
~ John Jakes
Pese a lo que han estado sometidos, los negros son una gente bastante agradable en general. Yo había tenido poca relación con ellos, en realidad, pues sólo me relaciono con mis iguales, y como no tengo iguales, no me relaciono con nadie.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Almost everyone else has had an opportunity to run the world. I cannot see why these people should not be given their chance.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.
~ John Knowles
He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.
~ John Knowles
We are all born equally far from the sun.
~ John Knowles
he's imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales. He's forgotten that Justice incarnate is not only balancing the scales but also blindfolded.
~ John Knowles
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love
~ John Lennon
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
~ John Lennon
One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.
~ John Lennon
We make her paint her face and dance If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man While putting her down we pretend that she is above us
~ John Lennon
It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!
~ John Lennon
Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.
~ John Lennon
Imagine all the people, sharing all the world
~ John Lennon
A working-class hero is something to be.
~ John Lennon
The Dead were no better than us – they made mistakes, behaved badly, lost the plot, lost hope, treated each other cruelly – and, as we have seen, they certainly cannot be said to have had better lives. Ultimately, though, whatever they started with, and however badly it sometimes ended, all of our distinguished Dead did something that made a difference – and they did it by making something of themselves.
~ John Lloyd
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
~ John Locke