There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
Equality Quotes (282 Quotes)
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
Equality California is proud to honor these champions of equality at San Francisco City Hall. Our gala will coincide with the second anniversary of what many revere as the 'winter of love,' the month when nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages were performed in San Francisco. We are thrilled to welcome our guests to City Hall to celebrate and honor these leaders.
A party Republican with one idea but that is a noble idea . . . the idea of equality -- the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws.
China is ready to work with Canada to tap the potential of continued cooperation in all fields in the spirit of equality and mutual benefit so as to better serve our two peoples and further promote peace, stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and the world at large.
This is why we are fighting. If we had marriage equality, the freeholders wouldn't even have had the ability to tear apart these two people's lives.
Ford's action is a positive outcome that represents a victory for fairness and equality. Ford has sent a powerful signal that corporate America values its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees and customers.
The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.
In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln did not hesitate to dispel the notion that he was a champion of racial equality 'I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.'
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
Equality and respect for all are central to Europe's democratic tradition. Bans on gay pride marches and thinly veiled calls for censorship send a message that minority rights are at the mercy of the majority. They violate Poland's European and international obligations.
We now have the Senate of the largest state in the nation endorsing marriage equality. This undermines President Bush's claim that this effort is being undertaken by a few activist judges.
It's surprising that Wimbledon, which has been such a leader in our sport, has chosen to lag behind the other Grand Slams on the issue of equality. Wimbledon represents so much that is good about modern British society, but inequality should not be part of the Wimbledon brand.
Friendliness, goodwill, non-aggression, sovereign equality, independence and non-interference in internal affairs have come to constitute the towering edifice of Nepal and China relations,
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
I think the bilateral relationship is a strategic partnership of equality and mutual respect. We will not form an alliance, and this kind of long-term relationship is not directed against another country,
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
Mexico is on an irreversible, definitive, historical path to democratic equality, ... I am confident that ... all Mexicans can say with pride and with unity that democracy has been institutionalized in our country,
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
The better argument for the result reached in Roe v. Wade is that it's necessary for the equality of women, rather than grounding it in the privacy right, ... Closed Chambers The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court.
Brennan and Marshall's torch-bearers today mostly sit on courts in Canada and South Africa and Israel and Europe. Those places don't have centuries-old constitutions, and as a result, judges there tend not to care about originalism. They talk and write unapologetically about dignity, equality, and the human spirit. And many of them don't think judicial restraint is a paramount virtue or worry that they're imposing their values from on high. A judge should also be part of his people, ... I sit on a bench located in the world.
The people of Ecuador today have decided to save the republic, a republic of hope, in whose streets and green fields should flower dignity, hope, equality and happiness.
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Our children have to be educated in the values of equality, freedom of choice and democracy,
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
We have asked that Ford repudiate its relationship with this extremist group, reinstate its advertising of Jaguar and Land Rover and continue investing in organizations working for equality.
In one single day, Rosa Parks made the world face the cause of equality, civil rights and justice. No words can adequately describe the courage of her actions, the nobility of her character or the impact she had on an entire nation.
Twenty-five years ago, there were no companies that offered same-sex domestic partner benefits. Today, there are more than 8,000. Twenty-five years ago, there were no states with laws that banned discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Today, there are 16 that ban discrimination based on sexual orientation andor gender identity. Twenty-five years ago, the Human Rights Campaign endorsed only one candidate for Congress. Last year, we endorsed 201. We were proud to have to opportunity to celebrate those and so many other benchmarks with some of our strongest allies in the fight for equality.
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, or to steal bread.
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
Log Cabin Republicans take the governor at his word, that if, and when, the courts of California join the Legislature in recognizing the right to civil marriage equality, he will uphold and support that decision.
If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.
The second thing we are wanting in is the recognition of the principle of fraternity. What does fraternity mean Fraternity means a sense of common brotherhood of all Indians, all Indians being one people. It is a principle that gives solidarity to social life. It is difficult thing to achieve. It seems to me that there lies a heavy duty to see that democracy does not vanish from the earth as a governing principle of human relationship. If we believe in it, we must both be true and loyal to it. We must not only be staunch in our faith in democracy but we must resolve to see that whatever we do, we do not help the enemies of democracy to uproot the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity. It follows that we must strive along with other democratic countries to maintain the basis of democratic civilization. If democracy lives we are sure to reap the benefit of it. If democracy dies it will be our doom. On that there can be no doubt.
Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value. If all men are equal, then all men are of the same essence, and the common essence entitles them of the same fundamental rights and equal liberty... In short justice is another name of liberty, equality and fraternity.
In 1965, I marched for equality.
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
But a spokesman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid was less enthusiastic, saying Roberts has suitable legal credentials. ... needs to demonstrate to the Senate that he has a commitment to core American values of freedom, equality and fairness.
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
What we want is a system which, while tolerating all religious beliefs, places them on a footing of perfect equality.
Sir, I once knew a young man who, having visited countries where liberty and equality were the rule, then decided to defend these principles in his own country. Do you know what happened to him ... He was hanged.
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.