The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
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The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
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America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
If every one of those good words - liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights - has been called bourgeois, what on earth does that leave for us?
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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
The chief factor in producing such sympathy is simply association on a plane of equality, and for a common object. Any healthy-minded American is bound to think well of his fellow-Americans if he only gets to know them. The trouble is that he does not know them.
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Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
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I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
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The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
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The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.
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The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
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A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
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Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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