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Quotes About Equality

I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.
~ Wesley Morris
A good leader must be fair.
~ Yao Ming
If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.
~ Nelson Mandela
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
~ Voltaire
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
~ Unknown
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
~ Robert Kennedy
The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.
~ Hammurabi
An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.
~ Wilma Mankiller
In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
~ Antonin Scalia
I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.
~ Richard M. Nixon
The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
~ Mercy Otis Warren
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
~ Frances Perkins
The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.
~ Pranab Mukherjee
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
~ Earl Warren
[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.
~ Nipsey Hussle
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.
~ Allen West
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
~ Herbert Marcuse