"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.
The way the Democrats go about seeking equality is to lower people at the top.
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.
A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first. . . is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
Visibility is not equality.
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.