Quotes About Equality

Even though America loves baseball, (American) football, and basketball, I feel it is the ultimate American game, really, because it's a pure meritocracy, and that is what America was designed as.

In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

A little child may find companionship in many strange and simple creatures, but to a grown man there must be some semblance of equality in intellect as the basis for agreeable association.

I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.

They would allow no woman to be forced to marry against her will they told the newcomers, nor would they surrender any suppliant, no matter how feeble, and no matter how powerful the pursuer.

You speak almost as well as a man. It will be a novelty to make love to a woman who seems to have a man's mind.

for no border severs man from man, or one manner of living totally from another.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal.

Even women have been known to enjoy the privileges of a flat.

It had evidently not occurred to her as yet that those who consent to share the bread of adversity may want the whole cake of prosperity for themselves.

Just so; she'd even feel aggrieved. But why? Because it's against the custom of the country. And whose fault is that? The man's again—I don't mean Ralph I mean the genus he belongs to: homo sapiens, Americanus. Why haven't we taught our women to take an interest in our work? Simply because we don't take enough interest in THEM.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free;

What do you call the weak point? He paused. The fact that the average American looks down on his wife.

Here was no retrospective pretense of an opulent past, such as the other Invaders were given to parading before the bland but undeceived subject race. The Spraggs had been plain people and had not yet learned to be ashamed of it. The

Women ought to be free—as free as we are

Women ought to be free—as free as we are, he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

A sua afirmação - as mulheres deviam ser livres, livres como nós - ia até ao fundo de um problema que no seu mundo se convencionara não existir. Boas mulheres, embora injustiçadas, nunca exigiriam o género de liberdade que ele pensava, e homens de espírito generoso como ele ficavam - assim no calor do argumento - cavalheirescamente prontos para conceder-lha.

Because it's against the custom of the country. And whose fault is that? The man's again—I don't mean Ralph I mean the genus he belongs to: homo sapiens, Americanus. Why haven't we taught our women to take an interest in our work? Simply because we don't take enough interest in THEM.

Las mujeres deberían ser libres..., tan libres como nosotros —declaró, descubriendo algo cuyas terribles consecuencias estaba demasiado irritado para medir.

Those who attempt to level, never equalize.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

A perfect equality will indeed be produced; that is to say, equal want, equal wretchedness, equal beggary, and on the part of the partitioners, a woeful, helpless, and desperate disappointment. Such is the event of all compulsory equalizations. They pull down what is above. They never raise what is below: and they depress high and low together beneath the level of what was originally the lowest. [Thoughts and Details on Scarcity]

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.