Equality Quotes

Love either finds equality or makes it.

As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

Gender equality is more successful than armed force.

The idea of equality is still how I define feminism. I think it's a broad definition that encompasses the variety of experiences women and men have with the word and the movement.

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

Freedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other.

I thought equality was non-negotiable.

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.

I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

Women must have economic and social equality with men.

I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

Using human rights commitments more effectively, either as part of negotiations in the WTO or as part of the trade policy review process, poses issues of equality in a practical venue.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

Life question reflects nation's nature & equality of humans.

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.

[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.