equality Quotes

“Only a peace between equals can last; only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.”

― Woodrow Wilson, A World League For Peace

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“Between men and women . . . only death is shared equally.”

― John Irving, The World According to Garp

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“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“For the principle of equality begets two tendencies; the one leads men straight to independence, and may suddenly drive them into anarchy; the other conducts them by a longer, more secret, but more certain road, to servitude.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The sun—the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man—burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and...”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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“Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“Liberty is the nominal goal of Rousseau's thought, but in fact it is equality that he values, and that he seeks to secure even at the expense of liberty.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

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