Famous quotes containing the words equal, house and/or system:
“If you say, “I’m for equal pay,” that’s a reform. But if you say. “I’m a feminist,” that’s ... a transformation of society.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down. Any paternalistic system that tries to provide for security for everyone from above only calls for an impossible task and a regimentation utterly uncongenial to the spirit of our people.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)