Archive for the ‘Equality’ Category

Linda Ellerbee on Equality

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

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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John F. Kennedy on Equality

Monday, June 9th, 2008

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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Linda Ellerbee on Equality

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

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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Carl Schurz on Equality

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

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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Abraham Lincoln on Equality

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

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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Martin Luther King, Jr. on Equality

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

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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Golda Meir on Equality

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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

- Golda Meir

Robert Kennedy on Equality

Monday, October 1st, 2007

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

Andrew Jackson on Equality

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

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

- Andrew Jackson

Rudyard Kipling on Equality

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

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

- Rudyard Kipling