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

L’égalité sera peut-être un droit, mais aucune puissance humaine ne saura le convertir en fait.

Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie humaine

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Topic

Equality Human rights

Author

Honoré de Balzac

Source

La Duchesse de Langeais La Comédie humaine

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

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 will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

William Lloyd Garrison

To the Public

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Moderation

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William Lloyd Garrison
Source
To the Public The Liberator
Medium
Essay Newspaper
Language
English
Time
1831 1830s 19th century
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Citation

Garrison, William Lloyd. "To the Public." The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831.

Another quote about Equality

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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Equality Human rights
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Desmond Tutu
Medium
Interview TV program
Language
English
Time
1985 1980s 20th century
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Tutu, Desmond. The Today Show, NBC, 9 Jan. 1985.

Another quote originally in French

It is not rebellion itself that is noble, but its aims, even though its achievements are at times ignoble.

Albert Camus

The Rebel

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Rebellion Resisting authority

Author

Albert Camus
Source
The Rebel
Medium
Novel
Genre
Political literature
Language
French
Time
1947 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Camus, Albert. L'Homme Revolte [The Rebel]. Gallimard, 1951.