Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.
Equal time is not necessary when dealing with evil. Nazis do not merit equal or fair treatment.
International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.
