“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, “The Princess Casamassima,” The Liberal Imagination
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“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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“There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.” — Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
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“No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.” — Arthur Helps, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
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“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.” — Robert G. Ingersoll, “The Limitations of Toleration”, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol VII (1888-05-08)
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“Any kind of discrimination — be it on grounds of religion, political opinion, race, or whatever it is — seems to be incompatible with the idea of freedom under the law. Experience has shown that separate never is equal and cannot be equal.” — Friedrich Hayek, “Conversation with Systematic Liberalism”
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“The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.” — George Bancroft, History of the United States
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“To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly to admit that factual inequality would justify unequal treatment, and the proof that some differences do, in fact, exist would not be long in forthcoming. It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.” — Friedrich Hayek
“To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly to admit that factual inequality would justify unequal treatment, and the proof that some differences do, in fact, exist would not be long in forthcoming. It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.” — Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty
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“When I consider how little difference there is in mankind (either in body or mind) I cannot help being astonished at the airs some people give themselves.” — William Hazlitt, “Common Places,” The Literary Examiner
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