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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Declaration of Independence

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United States Declaration of Independence. 1776, preamble.

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The National Archives. The Declaration of Independence: A Transcript. 24 July 2020, www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript.

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Gettysburg Address." At the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery. 19 Nov. 1863, Gettysburg, PA, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

Animal Farm

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Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. Secker and Warburg, 1945, ch. 10.

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When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.

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This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island,
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters;
This land was made for you and me.

Woody Guthrie

This Land is Your Land

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Guthrie, Woodie. This Land Is Your Land. c. 1945.

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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights.

Desmond Tutu

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Tutu, Desmond. The Today Show, NBC, 9 Jan. 1985.

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I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio. 17 Sept. 1859, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Declaration of Sentiments." Women's Rights Convention. 19 July 1848, Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, NY, USA.

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What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick brain workers nor heart-sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all-the realization at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth.

William Morris

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Morris, William. "How I Became a Socialist." Justice, 16 June 1894.

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Morris, William. How I Became a Socialist, edited by Owen Hatherley. Verso, 2020.

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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

Calvin Coolidge

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Coolidge, Calvin. Speech on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 5 July 1926, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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There is no racial bigotry here! I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops, or greasers! Here, you are all equally worthless!

Gunnery Sargent Hartman

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Full Metal Jacket. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Natant/Harrier Films, 1987.

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The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing—one person, one vote.

William O. Douglas

Gray v. Sanders

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Douglas, William O. United States, Supreme Court. Gray v. Sanders. United States Reports, vol. 372, 17 June 1963, pp. 368-372. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/372/368/.

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I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Sojourner Truth

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Truth, Sojourner. Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. American Equal Rights Association meeting. 9 May 1867, New York, NY, USA.

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For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Aristotle

Politics

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 4.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 4.

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A man who denies to other men equality of rights is hardly worthy of freedom; but I would give even to him all the rights which I claim for myself.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. Quoted by John Hay in "Franklin in France," Addresses of John Hay. The Century Co., 1906.

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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie humaine

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De Balzac, Honoré. Ne touchez pas la hache [Don’t Touch the Axe]. L'Écho de la Jeune France, 1834.

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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system-that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1960, ch. 20.

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Definition of Democracy." 1 Aug. 1858?

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Lincoln, Abraham. "On Slavery and Democracy, 1858?" Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal-there is one human institiution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockeffeler, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.