All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.
Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea of giving - of fighting poverty and of promoting the equality of human beings - whatever their background, whatever their political beliefs.
Equality is truly sweet.
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press. . . They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds
Men are born equal but they are also born different.
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
Gender equality is more successful than armed force.
There were many who went in huddled procession,They knew not wither,But, at any rate, success or calamityWould attend all in equality. There was one who sought a new road,He went into direful thickets,And ultimately he died thus, alone;But they said he had courage.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?