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"We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform"
Chen Shui-bian, Statesman
"The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind"
Carol P. Christ, Educator
"Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class"
Anne Perry, Novelist
"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another"
Voltaire, Writer
"We are all alike, on the inside"
Mark Twain, Author
"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"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"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles"
Plato, Philosopher
"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike"
Plato, Philosopher
"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"It is never too late to give up our prejudices"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle"
John F. Kennedy, President
"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians"
John F. Kennedy, President
"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic"
John F. Kennedy, President
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