A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
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The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, bu…
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all…
I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality.
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no root…
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
All men are born equally free.