Socialism values equality more than liberty.
On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes itself heard only to give us orders and establish prohibitions, we cannot recognize our own voices; the very tone...
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal.
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
