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“All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free”
Voltaire
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”
Anatole France
“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference”
“All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws”
“Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it”
Confucius
“There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.”
Chanakya
“Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike”
Plato
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
Malcolm X
“As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law arethe rule.”
Albert Einstein
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the one less traveled by / offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
Rachel Carson
