Deborah Tannen Quotes

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

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.

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

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

I am treated no different than the other girls.

Equality is equity.

People need to see signs of equal treatment across society.

There are people out there every day really fighting the fight for equal rights, equal pay, equal treatment. They're inspiring.

We want equality for everyone and justice when it's time for that.

Everybody's equal. Everybody should deserve the same opportunity, the same challenge, the same whatever.

Justice should be one of the things that's colorblind.

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

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

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.

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.

I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.

I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if I'm paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see who's funniest, with everyone treated equally.

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.

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.