Equality
» “By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.”
– St. Thomas Aquinas
» ”Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.”
– Aristotle
» ”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
» ”The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
– Aristotle
» ”Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
– Honore De Balzac
» ”The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”
– Simone De Beauvoir
» ”There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.”
– Paul Burton
» ”Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.”
– Anna Chennault
» ”Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.”
– James F. Cooper
» ”Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”
– William J. Durant
» ”A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.”
– Andrea Dworkin
» ”All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”
– Bob Dylan
» ”The mandate for equal opportunity doesn’t dictate disregard for the differences in candidates’ qualities and skills. There is no constitutional right to play ball. All there is a right to compete for it on equal terms.”
– Tim III Ellis
» ”Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
» ”When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.”
– Frantz Fanon
» ”We’ve chosen the path to equality, don’t let them turn us around.”
– Geraldine Ferraro
» ”Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort.”
– Rubye Fields
» ”Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.”
– Erich Fromm
» ”The legacy of women’s war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers’ campaign for equal pay.”
– Linda Grant
» ”That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.”
– Aldous Huxley
» ”We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
