Equal Quotations | Page 8

We were trying to find a balance that worked for everyone, which was tough to do because you have competing interests. I think everyone is equally unhappy with our result so I think we have a compromise. But I look to these parties to keep working together to make this work.

Rochester: My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.

Only those who are behind in technology want that. But a lot of things that sound good in theory unfortunately don't work in the real world. Just look at Communism. Everyone's equal but no one works to get ahead.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.

It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings were incapable of being just to each other, and I believe this same rule holds with regard to the injustice practiced by men towards women. So long as all men conspire to rob women of the citizen's right to perfect equality in all the privileges and immunities of our so-called "free" government, we can not expect these same men to be capable of perfect justice to each other.