Mason Cooley Quotes

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

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

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

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.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

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

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

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.

Equal Rights

Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.

I believe the time has come for equal rights for everyone in this country, even for white people.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.