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  • I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

    "My credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.
  • There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

  • For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.'

    Sex   Men   Opportunity  
    United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014
  • I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

    Two   White   Differences  
    Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.132, Penguin
  • Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

    Mean   Equality   Rights  
    "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.
  • After all, by providing early access to medicine, nutrition and stimulation, early childhood development creates lifelong improvements in health, cognitive development, school achievement, and social equality.

    Source: www.americasquarterly.org
  • We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity for all are within reach. But we cannot prevaricate.

    "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.
  • If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American men feel threatened sexually unless they're taller than the female, more intellectual, better educated, better paid and higher placed statuswise in the business world. They've got to be the authority, the final word.

    Men   Talking   America  
  • Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

    Kings   Stars   Hate  
    "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King, 1967.
  • Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

    Equality   Men   History  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.21, Open Road Media
  • 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 (2016). “Politics”, p.131, Aristotle
  • There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

    Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.27, tredition
  • 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.

    Dream   Kings   Children  
    Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963
  • I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.

    James Bryce Bryce (1888). “The American Commonwealth”, Ams PressInc
  • I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don't want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern - legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.

    Atheist   Gay   Impact  
  • History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

    Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume
  • At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

    Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.22, Harvard University Press
  • The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

  • Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.

    Wise   Country   Jobs  
    "Enquiring Minds and the Oil War". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. July 11, 2010.
  • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

    Wisdom   Peace   Kings  
    "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963
  • The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

    Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation
  • I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

  • The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

    John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.253, Jazzybee Verlag
  • The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

  • There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

    Reform   Dialect   Facts  
  • Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

    Dream   Kings   Kids  
  • I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

  • Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.

    "The Art of Life". Book by Zygmunt Bauman, 2013.
  • We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.96, Beacon Press
  • Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

    Veja magazine Interview, February 24, 2010.
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