Equality Quotes

Equality Quote of the day

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

I think that equality needs to be broadened to include equal access to comprehensive healthcare, equal access to jobs, and equal rights in the workplace.

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.