#equal

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#equal #equal rights #family #fighting #had

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#action #add #always #around #because

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#equal #equal rights #mother #people #rights

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#desires #equally #gifts #god #his

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#dramatic role #equal #playing #role #same

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#character #children #color #content #day