Equality Quotes
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Amiel, Henri-Frédéric
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Annan, Kofi
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Aristotle
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
Babaji, Shri Haidakhan
There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.
Becque, Henry
The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Blackmun, Henry
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Burton, Paul
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.
Chennault, Anna
Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
Chisholm, Shirley
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Churchill, Winston
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Confucius
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
Debs, Eugene
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Dewey, John
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
Dylan, Bob
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Faulkner, William
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
France, Anatole
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Frankfurter, Felix
It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Fromm, Erich
Men are born equal but they are also born different.
Gibran, Kahlil
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Huxley, Aldous
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Ingalls, John James
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
Jackson, Andrew
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Jefferson, Thomas
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.
Kennedy, Robert
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Kipling, Rudyard
All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
Kristol, Irving
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Lewis, C.S.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Norton, Eleanor
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with
Plato
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. -- Plato
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Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.
Reagan, Maureen
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
Roosevelt, Theodore
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
Russell, Bertrand
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Samuel, Viscount
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sorano, Lya
When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don't know about you, but I can't wait that long.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Steinem, Gloria
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
Thomas, Marlo
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Wilson, Woodrow
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.