Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.
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Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
We live in a world where equality is pretty important.
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
The more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally.
It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.
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