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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. - Aristotle Equality is no rule in Love's grammar. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. - Bible, MAtthew (ch. VII, v. 12) The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton So let them ease their hearts with prate of equal rights, which man never knew. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal. - Pierre Charron A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow. - Charles Caleb Colton As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes if the wind blow it thither; and when a whirlwind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, "This is the patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeoman, this the plebeian bran?" - Dr. John Donne In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship equal rights and a common destiny for all. A government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay. - Frederick Douglass Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice. - Dwight David Eisenhower Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The majestic equality of laws forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. - Jacques Anatole I. France (Jacques Anatole Thibault) It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. - Justice Felix Frankfurter Men are born equal but they are also born different. - Erich Fromm Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. - James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics Consider man, weigh well thy frame; the king, the beggar, are the same; dust formed us all. - John Gay We are not all equal, nor can we be so. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Children of wealth or want, to each is given One spot of green, and all the blue of heaven! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom. - Alexander Humboldt I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be in body and mind equal to the white man; but it would be hazardous to affirm that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so. - Thomas Jefferson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves: but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Boswell's Life of Johnson Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. - Martin Luther King, Jr., I've Been to the Mountaintop, a speech made the day before his assassination Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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