Mary McCarthy Quotes

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Equality is a mortuary word.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

Equal Rights

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

It may be a task that's so Herculean, but I think it's a worthy goal to try to open up America to individuals who just so happen to have a different skin color, that they have every right and every freedom to think what they want to think.

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.

Everyone is beautiful, and the world isn't equal - and we need to fight towards that.

I thought equality was non-negotiable.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

Equity is the only acceptable goal

Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was that dream? It wasn't the American Dream. It was a dream that all human beings, especially poor and working people, be treated with dignity.

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

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

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

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country.