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Quotes About Equality

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.
~ Giles Fraser
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
~ Aaron Sorkin
It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.
~ Joe Hockey
A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.
~ Warren Mundine
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.
~ John Adams
The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.
~ Michelle Bachelet
A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
~ Felix Rohatyn
The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!
~ Louis Armstrong
I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.
~ Michael Newdow
Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.
~ Anderson Cooper
When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.
~ James Cook
One law for the lion and ox is oppression.
~ William Blake
Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
~ Paul Ryan
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.
~ Shakira
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.
~ Walt Whitman
You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.
~ Jill Stein
So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.
~ John Bright
I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.
~ Lakhdar Boumediene
Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.
~ Liane Holliday Willey
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
~ Thomas Jefferson