Equality Quotes

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

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

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.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Women are no longer victims. They have become leaders. They are at the forefront of the demonstrations. We will share a role in all aspects of life, side by side with men.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.