Equality Quotes

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

Equality cannot be reached if fought in a divisive way.

What we need is equality without conformity.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

All men are born free: just not for long.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

We are all alike, on the inside.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.