Morris Abram Quotes

Our aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispension in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights, treatment and opportunity in every sphere of endeavour—constitutional, social and economic.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

Government should not deny to any of its citizens that which it gives to other citizens.

We seek ... not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and as a result.

Equality is the chief groundwork of equity.

This, then, is first what I will: that every man be worthy of folk-right, as well poor as rich; and that righteous dooms be judged to him;

There can be no truer principle than this—that every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

Equality is equity.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

It is simply a matter of treating each man, rich or poor, on his merits, and making him feel that at the White House, which is the Nation's property, all reputable citizens of the nation are sure of like treatment.

Equal Rights

Asserting the equality of all men before the law, we hold that it is the duty of the government, in its dealings with the people, to mete out equal and exact justice to all citizens, of whatever nativity, race or persuasion—religious or political.

Every plausible principle of equality is based on the thought that everyone matters and matters equally.

The Equal Rights Amendment is a necessity of life…

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

The principles for which we stand are the principles of fair play and a square deal for every man and every woman in the United States.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.