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The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. – Robert Toombs

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We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. – Robert Toombs

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Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. – Robert Toombs

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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. – James Russell Lowell, “Democracy Address,” Birmingham, England, 6 October 1884

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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. – Mary Douglas

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I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. – Brigid Brophy

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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity. – Irving Kristol

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