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"I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant"
John F. Kennedy, President
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"In a higher phase of communist society... Only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"It is not true that people are naturally equal; for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings"
John Ruskin, Writer
"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
"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"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro"
Charles de Gaulle, Leader
"We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose"
George Orwell, Author
"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer"
George Orwell, Author
"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible"
Maya Angelou, Poet
"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them"
Maya Angelou, Poet
"Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
"The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men"
Billie Jean King, Athlete
"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
"Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
"We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"It will be helpful in our mutual objective, to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face, and see a man-not a color"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do"
Richard M. Nixon, President
"Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist"
Thomas Mann, Writer
"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you"
Thomas Mann, Writer
"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal"
Will Durant, Historian
"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"It isn't a matter of black is beautiful, as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
"Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference"
Dalai Lama, Leader
"By nature, all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
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