Stefan Zweig Quotes

I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.

I get treated like everyone else, and that's the way it should be.

All Americans are taught, and hopefully believe, in the idea that we are all created equal and should be treated that way.

No student should feel like there isn't a way to seek justice, and no student should feel that the scales are tipped against him or her.

I think if we could just level the playing field in life as much as possible, then we'd all be in a much better place.

It's important to be transparent, to remove secrecy from issues of equality.

Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

I thought equality was non-negotiable.

Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.

If we reach common ground, and can understand what everybody's going through, we can really affect change. And make sure that everyone is trated equally and has the same freedom.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Every single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society. It’s a pretty simple proposition.

I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

All people are different. That's why everybody should be treated the same.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.