A Quote by Jane Bryant Quinn

Equality is never given, it is taken.

Jane Bryant Quinn

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Equality Given Never Taken

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Jane Bryant Quinn
American - Journalist
Born: February 5, 1939

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, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

Robert Mugabe

Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are..... And there can be no love where love does not find equality or is not busy creating equality. Nor is there any pleasure without equality. Practice equality in human society. Learn to love, esteem, consider all people like yourself. What happens to another, be it bad or good, pain or joy, ought to be as if it happened to you.

Meister Eckhart

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

William Powell

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

Thomas Paine

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

Cameron Dokey

I'm in the world where things are taken, never given. How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.

Drake

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

Idries Shah

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

Sylvia Kristel

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

Scott Adams

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

Epicurus

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.

James F. Cooper

It can be stolen, but never bought. It can be given, but never taken. It can be stepped on, but cannot walk . It can fly, but has no wings. It can sing, but has no voice. It can be broken, but still it work s. It can be left, even while it follows. And though it’s easily commanded, it can never, ever be demanded.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.