"Courage consists in equality to the problem before us."
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"Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself."
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"Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow."
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"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
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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 is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals."
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"For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor"
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"The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality."
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"The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need.""
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"If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality."
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"My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity."
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"If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior"
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"No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow."
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"Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant."
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"The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union."
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"We are all alike, on the inside."
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"You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside."
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"Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it."
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"We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give."
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"It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education."
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