EQUALITY
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"Our
expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a
time when we will all be minorities, offers us
an invitation to create a larger memory of who
we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding
principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of
the "disuniting of America" and warnings of the
"clash of civilizations." As Langston Hughes sang,
"Let America be America, where equality is in
the air we breathe."
-- Ronald Takaki
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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.
--
Marlo
Thomas
In
the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as
equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education
and on the playing field. It was a very exciting,
rebellious time.
-- Marlo
Thomas
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“We
women have presented an alternative proposal to
society and to humanity. It is about the construction
of a world where tolerance is a life style; Where
daily social and political divergences and its
resolutions would be seen as part of humanity;
Where equality would be possible in all its dimensions;
Where knowledge and access to education and other
social possessions would not be the privilege
of a few; A world where violence in all its forms
would be past history, where fear will not overwhelm
us and where we shall be able to enjoy the goodness
of existence.”
~ Rafaela vos
Obeso
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"You cannot have peace without human rights, democracy,
gender equality, and clean water. Look to the
root causes of war and you will find, in their
reverse, the root foundations of peace."
-- Cora Weiss
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"A
federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient
measure of social justice, to ensure health, education,
and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the
children born into the world, would mean such a
release and increase of human energy as to open
a new phase in human history."
-- H. G.
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equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the
same chances and rights as myself - As if it were
not indispensable to my own rights that others
possess the same.
~ Walt Whitman
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An
enormous discrepancy exists between the way we
talk about equality in the abstract and the value
as translated into laws and justice.”
~Roy Wilkins
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"You
cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon
the terms of equality."
-- Woodrow
Wilson
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.
-- Woodrow Wilson |
The
uses of government should be to foster, protect
and promote the possession of equality.
-- Victoria Woodhull
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