Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it. ~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view. ~By Jenny Shipley ~
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge. ~By Jerry Brown ~
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. ~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. ~By Bob Dylan ~
In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others. ~By Paul Martin ~
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. ~By Plato ~
I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl. ~By Anne Hathaway ~
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. ~By Arthur Henderson ~
The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential. ~By Betty Buckley ~
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. ~By Arthur Hugh Clough ~
I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. ~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. ~By Mary Douglas ~
The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality. ~By Tarja Halonen ~
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. ~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century. ~By Tran Duc Luong ~
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. ~By Mao Tse Tung ~
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. ~By Rowan D. Williams ~
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. ~By Michael Kinsley ~
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else. ~By Bono ~
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. ~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ~By Anatole France ~
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. ~By Leonard Baskin ~
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. ~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. ~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. ~By Paul Dirac ~
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question. ~By David Korten ~
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions. ~By Barack Obama ~
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. ~By Benjamin Tucker ~
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. ~By Thomas Malthus ~
It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all. ~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
Nobody really believes in equality anyway. ~By Warren Farrell ~
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life. ~By Harry Bridges ~
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. ~By Paul Wellstone ~
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. ~By Mason Cooley ~
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world. ~By Morris Dees ~
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. ~By Leonard Boswell ~
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. ~By George Orwell ~
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. ~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take. ~By Barney Frank ~
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind. ~By Bob Ney ~
On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. ~By Emanuel Celler ~
A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan. ~By Mary Daly ~
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking? ~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. ~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. ~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. ~By Steven Pinker ~
Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all. ~By Mike Rogers ~
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. ~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. ~By William Faulkner ~
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy. ~By Timothy Geithner ~
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. ~By Herbert Read ~
Socialism values equality more than liberty. ~By Dennis Prager ~
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. ~By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ~
Everyone has an equal right to inequality. ~By John Ralston Saul ~
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. ~By Kim Campbell ~
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. ~By Tarja Halonen ~
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way. ~By Jack Kemp ~
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. ~By Adrian Cronauer ~
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ~By Barry Goldwater ~
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ~By Kofi Annan ~
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words. ~By Bianca Jagger ~
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men? ~By Dorothy Thompson ~
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality. ~By John Randolph ~
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ~By Felix Frankfurter ~
Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. ~By Elizabeth Wilson ~
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. ~By Erich Fromm ~
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference. ~By Robert Reich ~
Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it! ~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ~By Irving Kristol ~
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. ~By Tom Robbins ~
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality. ~By Andrew Cuomo ~
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated. ~By Tom G. Palmer ~
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. ~By Alice Paul ~
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal. ~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic. ~By Stephen Lewis ~
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. ~By John F. Kennedy ~
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization. ~By Herbert Croly ~
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. ~By Thomas Huxley ~
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words. ~By Ulrich Beck ~
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty. ~By Robert Casey ~
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~By Anna Howard Shaw ~
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. ~By Arthur Ashe ~
I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels. ~By Agnes Macphail ~
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. ~By Charles Rangel ~
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. ~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. ~By Maureen Reagan ~
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. ~By Max Nordau ~
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. ~By Samuel Johnson ~
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union. ~By Gerry Adams ~
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. ~By Herodotus ~
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. ~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. ~By Malcolm X ~
A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict. ~By Robert Shea ~
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. ~By Ken Livingstone ~
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions. ~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves. ~By Maximilien Robespierre ~
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. ~By Peggy Noonan ~
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