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The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.

It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

we are all of 1 accord Strike all our souls the same notechord It is only God whom we'll call Lord not those of butcher stock or warlords.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.".

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.