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We were equals
once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We
will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last
sleep.
-- Olive Schreiner
Between
persons of equal income there is no social distinction
except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing:
character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would
be great people and ordinary people and little people, but
the great would always be those who had done great things,
and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and
whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and
the little would be persons of small minds and mean
characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance.
That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of
income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great
in favor of equality.
-- George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
The battle for
women's rights has been largely won.
-- Margaret Thatcher
1925-, British Stateswoman,
Prime Minister (1979-90)
The principle
of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its
flight to the level of the earth.
-- Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social
Philosopher
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