Andrew Jackson on Equality
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
- Andrew Jackson
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
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl.
- Shirley Chisholm
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
- Richard M. Nixon
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
Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.
- Malcolm X
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
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.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
- John James Ingalls