Zadie Smith Quotes

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

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

On the field, everyone is equal.

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

We are for allowing difference and respecting difference until difference doesn't make a difference any more.

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.

You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike.

Fishing reminds us that all men are created equal before fish. They don’t jump on a President’s line any faster than anyone else’s.

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

Do not favor the poor or show deference to the rich; judge your neighbor fairly.

I have always been for absolute equality of privileges and obligations.

Equality is equity.

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.

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

I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

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

You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.