Equality Quotes

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.

God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think anybody really wants to be equal. Everybody wants to be more equal.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.