#Equality

"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser."

"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."

"Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same."

"Money is not equal for all people. A strong personal brand adds more lift and leverage. One dollar from me may buy a soda from a car dealership, but one dollar from Justin Bieber may get him a Ferrari. And they'd pay him to drive away."

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

"If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences."

"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."

"God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him."

"You deny them hope... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much."

"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."

"To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'."

"He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly."

"First and foremost: a human being. If your definition of yourself is something else; maybe you should reconsider."

"This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does."He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms."

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."

"I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised."

"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it."

"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."

"LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."