Alfred the Great Quotes

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Equal Rights for All, Special Privileges for None.

Do equall Law and right to all the King's Subjects rich and poor.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

Equal justice to the South, it is said, requires us to consent to the extension of slavery to new countries [states]. That is to say, inasmuch as you do not object to my taking my hog to Nebraska, therefore I must not object to your taking your slave. Now, I admit this is perfectly logical, if there is no difference between hogs and negroes.

Equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens without distinction of color, sex or nationality.

Racial preferences are dead. All that is required now is to give them a decent and honorable burial.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

I take it that any statute which is not equal to all, and which deprives any citizen of civil rights, which are secured to other citizens, is an unjust encroachment upon his liberty; and it is in fact a badge of servitude which by the Constitution is prohibited

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

I rejoice that I have lived to see this day, when the colored people of this favored land, by law, have equal privileges with the most favored. And I have faith to believe that ere long equal justice will be granted to the poor Indians and the Chinese.

… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

You can't keep treating people differently under the law because of their differences. That's not America. I dare say that's not even a good conservative value. We're all supposed to have an equal shot.

We must keep fighting until using the word 'equality' isn't necessary because we will all be living as one.

I believe in civil rights. Every man is born equal and should be treated as human.

I don't care if you're Christian, you're Muslim, you're gay, you're straight - I am here to fight for your equality. Because I believe that we are all born equal, but we are not treated equally, and that is why we must fight.

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.

Fiddler is keenly aware that justice and law don't necessarily equate.

I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.