Equal Quotes

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

Heritage does not equal destiny.

A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music.

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.

There is no delight the equal of dread

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that.

The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.

To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows.

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from capitalism in a sense.

If people can live openly and be equal, then you have to have a pretty strong reason to say they can't get married.

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

Cry for the soul that will not face the body as an equal place.

I have a fan base that some people say is equal to that of signed artists' maybe even more.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law?

Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.

Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

All men & women are created equal

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.