Equality Quotes

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

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

All men are equal before fish.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

I’d like every man who doesn’t call himself a feminist to explain to the women in his life why he doesn’t believe in equality for women.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.

Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.