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Perfect love cannot be without equality.
-Scottish Proverb
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Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
-Anon.
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Six feet of earth make all men equal.
-Proverb
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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.
-Proverb
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A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.
-Proverb
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Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven. Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all!
-Abdu'l-Baha
Paris Talks
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
-Bella Abzug
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
-Bella Abzug
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I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee...
-Bella Abzug
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The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.
-Cecil Frances Alexander
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The true republic
-Susan B. Anthony
(motto), "The Revolution (a New York weekly paper that she was proprietor of 1868 to 1870)"
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One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.
(An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge of illegal voting, at the presidential election in Nov. 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of election by whom her vote was received)
-Susan B. Anthony
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
-Thomas Aquinas
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
-Aristotle
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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
-Aristotle
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
-Aristotle
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When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
-John Ball
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
-Honore de Balzac
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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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We've got a generation now who were born with semi equality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
-Erma Bombeck
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There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.
-Paul Burton
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We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.
-Andrew Carnegie
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My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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-Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
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Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
-Anna Chennault
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Books about Equality
