Quotes About Equality

I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.

Luke hadn't been nervous when he'd disarmed a cold-eyed gunslinger in an El Paso saloon. Nor when he'd charged the hideout of the notorious Miller Gang. Nor when he'd single-handedly subdued a mob. But as he tied Honey Dew to Georgie's hitching post, his hands shook, his forehead beaded with sweat, and his mouth went dry. He blew out a long breath. It was just a woman. And she was tiny as a cricket bug.

Love is not a sentiment or an emotion. It's the fact that we're all the same being in different disguises.

Tu verdadero Ser, que es tu espíritu, tu alma, está completamente libre de esas cosas. Es inmune a la crítica, no tiene miedo a los retos, y no se siente inferior a nadie. Y aún así, es humilde y no se siente superior a nadie, porque reconoce que todos los demás son el mismo Ser, el mismo espíritu con diferentes disfraces. Experimenta respeto por toda la gente, cuando al mismo tiempo no se siente inferior a nadie.

Kings were no better than murderers, the only difference being that they had a legal monopoly on killing.

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

Human capital is of course much more equally distributed than ownership of factories or ships. We own ourselves, even if we are poor in stocks and bonds. Focusing on financial wealth is therefore misleading.

the liberal plan," as old Adam Smith wrote in 1776, "of [social] equality, [economic] liberty and [legal] justice," with a modest, restrained government giving real help to the poor.1 True modern liberalism.

The Harvard philosopher John Rawls articulated what he called the Difference Principle: if the entrepreneurship of a rich person made the poorest better off, then the higher income of the rich entrepreneur was justified.7 It makes a good deal of ethical sense. Equality does not.

All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated to go peacefully and enjoy the eternal nap.

Love doesn't need to be equal or be fair it only needs to be real!

The best way to get them is through education," Junior countered. "What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred and ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

One of them told me that the United States Constitution gave Chad Lowe the right to bear arms." Junior paused."I asked him if it gave me the same right. He stopped laughing then, told me to try it and see.

I expect you to come together as a race," Hambone answered. "I expect you to stop staring at the ground every time you speak to a white man that ain't a drop better than you. I expect you to be the men you were born to be, and to demand your God-given right to be human.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

To place patients of different illnesses in the same ward is to use people to kill each other. approx quote, possibly on L Hotel Dieu in Paris.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.