“Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?”
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The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.