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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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" I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. "

" An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new. "

Antonio Munoz Molina

" He who praises everybody, praises nobody. "

" A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. "

" Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? "

" Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. "

" Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty. "

" I support marriage equality and oppose legislation that defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman. "

" The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. "

" Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life. "

" How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers. "

" No man was ever great by imitation. "

" I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. "

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" The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. "

" The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them. "

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" Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare. "

" Football, like no other sport, creates a sense of unity, equality, and inclusion. All of these are at the heart of my vision for a changing Gabon. "

Ali Bongo Ondimba

" Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves. "

Maximilien Robespierre

" It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. "

Michael Kinsley

" Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open. "

" As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction. "

" Exercise is labor without weariness. "

" Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. "

" If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. "

" Sweden's development is based on the equal rights of men and women. We know that investments in gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights pay off. "

" Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment. But moral responsibility goes further, reflecting the need for corporations to address fundamental ethical issues such as inclusion, dignity, and equality. "

" When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality. "

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" All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society. "

" Time and time again, we have seen a growing alliance of allies who are willing to stand with trans people, who are educating themselves on trans identity and trans equality, and who understand that our lives are worth celebrating and that our cause matters. "