Equality Quotes

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

The murkiness of Donald Trump's position is really what distinguishes him from other Republican nominees and contenders who have been steadfast in their opposition to LGBTQ equality.

The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

Equality is a mortuary word.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

No one enjoys being equal.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God.

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

If Jack, Frank and Mary are in a loving relationship and were all for marriage equality, then why aren't the three of them covered in SB1? Why can't they get married?

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

This issue has brought out the ugly in our society.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love.

Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.