Equal Quotes

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.