Top 1200 Liberty And Equality Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.

In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in Uruguay under the military dictatorship, while in Chile one of the concentration camps was called 'Dignity.' It was the self-styled 'Peace and Justice' paramilitary group in Chiapas [Mexico] that in 1997 shot 45 peasants in the back, nearly all of them women and children, as they prayed in a church. What have the souls of the south done over the past few decades to deserve quite so much liberty and dignity and peace and justice?

Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index.

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.

[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.

The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctnaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

To me, feminism is believing in women's equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief.

Gender equality is more successful than armed force.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

Life question reflects nation's nature & equality of humans.

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

When we talk about pay equality, I think we're misunderstanding where the problem lies.

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

It's just like when Trump made his speech, his commencement speech at Liberty University, I saw something that I've never seen. ABC News was there, and they're running around asking the parents of students at Liberty University what about Donald Trump they don't like. Are you upset that Trump is here? Do you ever remember any such reporting at an Barack Obama or Michelle Obama commencement? Of course not. And Trump was loved and adored at this thing, and he had some great things to say.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

In reality it's pretty obvious that all the citizens of Israel have total civil equality.

It has been a long march to equality. We have cracked the door, and opened the window.

It's detrimental not to support marriage equality, even just on a financial level.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.

Gender equality is one of the principles we will never compromise at Accenture.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

Playing football can be damn harsh, but every day is a fight for equality.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

It's impossible to play football in a world among men and not fight for equality.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

Bumble is about equality. We are reverse-engineering traditional societal norms.

I went to visit Frank Capra, one of my idols, and did a kind of Judd Apatow interview with him. I said, "I'd like the Statue of Liberty to disappear, but I want to do it as a lesson in freedom, how valuable freedom is and what the world would be like without liberty." And Frank Capra looked at me and said, "David, I love your idea, but here's what you're going to do. You're going to try and it's not going to work; it's not going to disappear." And I said, "Mr. Capra, I can't do that."

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.