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People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

- Linda Ellerbee

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It’s very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

- John F. Kennedy

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People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

- Linda Ellerbee

Quotes, Famous Quotes, Linda Ellerbee, Equality

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

- Carl Schurz

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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

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The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

- Golda Meir

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.

- Robert Kennedy

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

- Andrew Jackson

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

- Rudyard Kipling