412 quotes found
“To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.”
“Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.”
“But even when the principle of equal treatment was betrayed, American leaders in every era have emphatically affirmed it, not so much out of hypocrisy as out of aspiration. Indeed, for those who we...”
“Heraclitus once said "we cannot exist without strife" but that does not mean we cannot co-exist without it.”
“Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.”
“Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world.But I say that even as the holy and the righte...”
“For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. Where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and...”
“For if our bodies arent our own,And justice isnt ours,And our love is just a sin,And voices by the peopleAre no longer for the people,What have we left to lose?”
“Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.''Who?' Aunt Alexandra never knew she was echoing her twelve-year-old ...”
“He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.”
“Its every mans business to see justice done.”
“Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.”
“But that's always a certain way to recognise a facist: when he's more powerful he kills everything that's different from him, he uses only brute force while law breaks like glass under his boots. A...”
“Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americansoften rich Americansconsume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes to...”
“Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man -in temperament, character, and capacity - and it respec...”
“The only true forms of equality are equality at the Last Judgment and equality before a just court of law; all other attempts at levelling must lead, at best, to social stagnation.”
“Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.”
“...[W]e must admit that... law must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions, but with absolute nece...”
“Mislike me not for my complexion,The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,To whom I am a neighbor and near bred.Bring me the fairest creature northward born,Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the ici...”
“Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.”
