"Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount."
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"Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations."
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"The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head."
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"Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more."
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""All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense."
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"Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time."
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"Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type"
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"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."
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"Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences."
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"The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal."
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"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."
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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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"Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep."
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"No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants."
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"I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States."
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"Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable."
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"Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better."
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