The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
Edward Young

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Samuel Richardson

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock Ellis

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
Harri Holkeri

Never make a companion equal to a brother.
Hesiod

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
Anthony Trollope

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
Karen Morley

I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal.
Martina McBride

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Lionel Trilling

In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
Abu Bakr

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
Jean Rostand

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
Patricia Ireland

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
Henry Fielding

I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex.
Leland Stanford

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
David Korten

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
Leland Stanford

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
Barbara Boxer

I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.
Leland Stanford