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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.
The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.
We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
I am going to continue to fight for our democracy, for representation, for justice and equality and making the world a better place.
Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
I do think that Japan will be one of the nations that have equality, and that, too, will serve as an example for other Asian nations.
People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.
Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.
When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Rigid, state-enforced sex equality is a Marxist policy, pursued to the outer limits in the old East Germany and now being adopted here.
The internet has given pure equality to everyone. The cream rises to the top. It is the era of not take a job, but create your own job.
The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Since signing up to Think Act Report, the majority of members are taking more action and publishing more information on gender equality.
nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.
I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.
It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.