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    It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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    I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there

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    I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

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    It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

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    It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.

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    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.

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    It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

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    It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral.

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    It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

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    It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

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    It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

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    It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

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    IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

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    It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

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    I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

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    I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

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    It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

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    It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

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    It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

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    It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings were incapable of being just to each other, and I believe this same rule holds with regard to the injustice practiced by men towards women. So long as all men conspire to rob women of the citizen's right to perfect equality in all the privileges and immunities of our so-called "free" government, we can not expect these same men to be capable of perfect justice to each other.

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    It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

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    It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

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    I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

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    I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

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    Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

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    Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

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    I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States

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    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.

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    Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

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    Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

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    Law and justice are not always the same.

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    Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

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    Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

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    Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, the infinitely variable appearance of an indivisible Whole.

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    Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

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    Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?

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    Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

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    . . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

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    More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

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    Love either finds equality or makes it.

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    Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

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    marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World.

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    Men are born equal but they are also born different.

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    Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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    Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

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    Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.

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    Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.

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    Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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    Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

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    Most women are one man away from welfare.