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Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. -- Thomas Huxley
Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness. -- Elizabeth A. Johnson
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. -- George Orwell
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. -- George Bernard Shaw
The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality. -- Arthur Jensen
If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity. -- George Orwell
Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice. -- Noah Feldman
The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't; b] he has a high IQ, but they don't. -- Steve Sailer
And this is the mission of the church--not civilization, but salvation--not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but first, the "kingdom of God and His righteousness;" regenerated hearts, and all other things will follow. -- Abbott Eliot Kittredge
An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation -- Robert M. Pirsig
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. -- Alveda King
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it. -- Honore de Balzac
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. -- Hannah Arendt
Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress. -- John Legend
Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality. -- Tony Fernandes
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent. -- Mahnaz Afkhami
Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. -- Andrew Jackson
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. -- Theodore Bikel
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. -- Isaiah Berlin
Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict. -- Hozier
Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race. -- Ludwig von Mises
I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness. -- Nelson Mandela
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. -- Francis Bacon
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. -- Samuel Johnson
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality. -- John Dewey
The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equality. -- Sam Brownback
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate. -- Camille Paglia
A party with one idea; but that is a noble idea ... the idea of equality - the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws. -- William H. Seward
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few. -- Carlos P. Romulo
True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together. -- Pauli Murray
Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history. -- Matt Mullenweg
[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being. -- Jay-Z
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights -- Gloria Steinem
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. -- Simone Weil
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American institutions along genuinely democratic lines. -- Henry Giroux
A woman is human.She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.Likewise, she is never less.Equality is a given.A woman is human. -- Vera Nazarian

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