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"Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me"
"You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil."
"The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations."
"Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'"
"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."
"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."
"Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance."
"Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice."
"When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness."
"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."
"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?"
"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal."
"The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened."
"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."
