Top 1200 Political Equality Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

Mr. Trump had no political or military experience, the traditional routes to high political office. Virtually his only qualification was his business career, and a checkered one at that, considering his own brush with personal bankruptcy.

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

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

To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.

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

For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political allegory,' and I think, 'Sure.' The political stuff is definitely there. But that's why I like fiction; there can be lots of different things going on, and it's all intertwined, and you can't separate out what's in what category.

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

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

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

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

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

People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one.

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

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

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

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

Modi has misused institutions like the ED, Intelligence Bureau, CBI, RBI and National Statistical Commission for political gains and harassing his political opponents. Modi lost his credibility by all these acts.

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

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

Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do.

It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds and there is a foreign extremist group - ISIS - trying to take advantage of the political environment through violence. If the Iraqis can resolve their political differences, it will be far more difficult for ISIS to thrive. Moving forward, we should continue to evaluate additional steps to help combat ISIS as we see what the Iraqis are willing to do politically, but we must also firmly guard against mission creep.

On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just because it hasn't hit 1933 levels; ominous political trends shouldn’t be dismissed just because there’s no Hitler in sight.

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.

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

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

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

I think what gives me hope is I have the sense that the people of Kenya have turned the page. They are keen to get a new political dispensation. They are keen to fight corruption and impunity, and in that sense they are leaving the political elite behind.

The revolution of equality between men and women has began, there is no going back

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

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

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

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model.

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

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

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

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

All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

There is no need to respond to whatever your most powerful and unaccountable political opponent says you have to respond to, particularly on their own corrupt and partisan terms. Treat them as your primary political opposition, because they are.

For so many of my characters, they were political in their own countries and they risked their lives for certain political beliefs that they had, only to be brought to America where they're not treated like Americans - they're just not really treated like anything.

All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.

All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.

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

Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have formed an innovative kind of cartel—an arrangement I have termed America’s political duopoly. Both parties lie about the fact that they have each sold out to the financial sector and the wealthy. So far both have largely gotten away with the lie, helped in part by the enormous amount of money now spent on deceptive, manipulative political advertising.

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

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