No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made. . . . There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.
The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.
All men are born equally free.
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. . . this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.