While Ian Paisley refuses to share power with nationalists and republicans on the basis of equality and respect Direct Rule Ministers (from Westminster) continue to take bad decisions which impact adversely on people right across this community.
Equality Quotes (282 Quotes)
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
My issue is race. I feel black people nowadays have to conform to this one ideal. We all have to be the same. We all have to be hard and ghetto and listen to only one genre of music which would be Rap and RB. And if one of us steps out of the mold we're not black anymore. Well, that's dumb. When did music determine your racial background Or a musical instrument I can't believe the dumb things people say when you're doing something different. I mean, it would be ok if music and how you dress and act actually determined your race, but the last time I checked it was your genes that determined your color. And I think anyone who chooses to believe in this fabrication is ignorant. Isn't this what the Civil Rights Movement was about, equality Didn't Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak of diversity and how we should hold hands at the table of brotherhood Well how are you supposed to do this when we try to conform to this idea. Not conforming doesn't make you have less pride in your race but it's helping make a window of opportunities for your race. Well, as for me, I'm stepping out of the box and going forward to be who I am, and if people disagree, fk them. I believe this will bring me closer to the goal that god ordained for me. And doing this doesn't mean I'm selling out my race, but it means I'm not selling out who I am.
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women -- or we believe in equality.
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.
Peace is a battle. Peace is never given freely, never acquired. Its conquest is the result of courage and of respect for others. It demands awareness and commitment from everyone. Peace is not the law imposed by the mighty, but that which is founded on equality and dignity of all peoples.
Tens of thousands of California families feel safer today now that the attack on their rights by the Campaign for California Families has failed. These families will never be truly safe, however, until full marriage equality is achieved.
Your national greatness, swelling vanity your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Bush promoted a conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.
this legislature's vote could be reversed, and not only could we lose civil marriage equality, we could also backpedal and lose domestic partner benefits.
There is a problem and that problem is one of equality of opportunity and respect for everyone in the republic,
World peace and security will be safeguarded if the new security concept with the principles of mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and cooperation as its core is followed.
Tree of Liberty A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, 'as symbols of growing freedom.' The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848.
Rebick said it's time for younger women to take over the fight for equality, adding she wrote Ten Thousand Roses out of fear the history of the women's movement in Canada would get lost. Following the rise of feminism during the 1960s to 1980s, we've seen almost a complete disappearance of the women's voice. A whole generation of women have grown up without any knowledge of the women's movement, ... There were no popular books on feminism so I wrote one.
If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.
It's bittersweet because we're being treated as second-class citizens. It's not full marriage equality.
The best education system is based on quality and equality. Children who are allowed to fall behind are being deprived of their human rights.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
The doctrine of equality There exists no more poisonous poison for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
This law will embody the principles that find general consensus among the Iraqi people ... respect for human rights and respect for basic political freedoms, including freedom of religion and the practice of religion and the equality of all citizens.
There is absolutely nothing in common between this social club and an organization like CAP that was established to push a political agenda to prohibit women and minorities from attending Princeton. No one can question Senator Kennedy's lifelong commitment to fighting for civil rights, equality and justice.
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
Equality only exists in the food bowl of a dog.
This is an exciting time in our growing civil rights movement for marriage equality. The Marriage Equality Matters campaign demonstrates the power of engaging the public and showing them the reality of marriage equality, rather than right-wing rhetoric and scare tactics. When it comes to opening hearts and minds to fairness and reaching the diverse communities who make up our American landscape seeing is, in fact, believing.
Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality.
A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.
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.
Equality is slavery. That is why I love art.
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality It is next worst to receiving one
It's the search for social justice, for equality, ... The capitalist model is perverse. It favors a minority and expropriates from the majority.
We will miss him as a distinguished religious figure, who devoted his life to defending the values of peace, freedom and equality. He defended the rights of Palestinians, their freedom and independence.
Women have confused equality with independence. Equality is a very good and desirable thing compared with independence, which is often rather notional and theoretical.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
The Americans Creed adopted by the House of Representatives, April 3, 1918 I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States a perfect Union one and inseparable established upon those principles of freedom equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend if against all enemies.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
In these days of equality, what's good for women is good for men.
I think a score of 5-1 would be very unlikely this time. but I do think extra time is likely in the tie because of the equality of the teams.
The Cold War mentality must be abandoned once and for all, ... And a new security concept based on mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and cooperation should be established.
I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engage in gestures of superficial equality.
We still have, I think, a society where we haven't done enough yet to live up to that standard that we'd all like to live up to, I think, in terms of equality of opportunity, that we judge people as individuals. As Martin Luther King said, we ought to judge people on the content of their character instead of the color of their skin. I would hope that we can continue to make progress in that regard in the years ahead.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.