Equality Quotes:

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

topic: Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism, Equality For All, Wealth Inequality

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

topic: Witty, Equality, Men, Equality For All

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

topic: Freedom, Equality, Men

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

topic: Freedom, Equality, Government, Social Equality, Liberty And Equality

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

topic: Witty, Equality, Men, Equal Respect, Political Science

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

topic: Equality, Treatment, Persons, Equal Treatment

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

topic: Equality, Thinking, Democrat

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Equality, Life Is, Civics

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

- Arthur Hugh Clough

topic: Equality, Political, Liberty

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Equality, Celebrate Life, Dividing

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Peace, Equality, Emotional

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Brother, Equality, Humanity

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

- B. R. Ambedkar

topic: Equality, Liberty, Fraternity, Jurists, Castes

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

- B. R. Ambedkar

topic: Equality, Two, Political, Liberty And Equality, Preamble

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.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: Equality, Creating, Keys, Tolerance And Diversity

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: Equality, Destiny, Self

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

- Baron de Montesquieu

source: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.156, Library of Alexandria

topic: Equality, Men, Law

The love of democracy is that of equality.

- Baron de Montesquieu

topic: Equality, Democracy

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

- Barry Goldwater

source: Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco

topic: Father, Equality, Differences, Liberty And Equality, Emancipation

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.

- Bashar al-Assad

topic: Equality, Land, Iraq

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

- Benjamin Tucker

topic: Equality, Liberty, Use

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

- Bernadette Devlin

topic: Mother, Equality, Church

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

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Wisdom, Equality, Ships, Equality For All

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

- Berthe Morisot

source: Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.203, Univ of California Press

topic: Equality, Men, Thinking

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Equality, Thinking, Race

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

source: Bess Streeter Aldrich (1939). “Song of Years”

topic: Equality, Men, Sight, Gumption

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

- Betty Buckley

topic: Equality, Race, Giving

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

- Bianca Jagger

topic: Dream, Equality, Law

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

- Bob Dylan

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Death, Work, Equality, Equality For All, Fidgeting

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

- Bono

topic: Equality, Rights, Talking

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

- Bono

topic: Commitment, Equality, Ideas

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

- Brigid Brophy

topic: Animal, Equality, Years

To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

- Carrie Chapman Catt

topic: Country, Party, Equality, Constitutional Convention

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

- Charles Fourier

source: Theory of Four Movements vol. 2, ch. 4 (1808)

topic: Equality, Rights, Progress, Social Progress

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

- Charlize Theron

source: FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Aug 23, 2013

topic: Acceptance, Equality, Marriage Equality

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

- Charlotte Bunch

source: "Global struggle for women's rights spotlighted at New York meeting" by Deborah Feyerick, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2000.

topic: Equality, Rights, Government

One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.

- Cicely Tyson

topic: Men, Equality, Rights

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race.

- Clarence Thomas

source: Concurring in Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

topic: Equality, Race, Government

I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.

- Clarence Thomas

source: Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

topic: Believe, Equality, Race

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

- Clive Barker

source: FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Jul 28, 2013

topic: Halloween, Book, Equality, Horror Genre

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

- Crystal Eastman

source: Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

topic: Motherhood, Equality, Roots, Joys Of Motherhood, Economic Independence

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

- David Allan Coe

topic: Equality, Men, Equal, Equality Of People

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

- David Eugene Edwards

topic: Mean, Equality, Men

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

- David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

topic: Opportunity, Equality, Talent, Equal Opportunity, Equality Of Opportunity

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

- Dennis Prager

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Equality, Eugenics, Liberty

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

- Dian Fossey

topic: Equality, People, Gorillas, Animal Intelligence

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

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspiring, Equality, Rights, Equal Rights

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Wisdom, Equality, Law

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

- Edmund Burke

source: Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.403

topic: Equality, Men, Rights

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

topic: Struggle, Past, Equality

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

topic: Inspiring, Women, Equality, Social Equality, Social Groups

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

topic: Equality, Self, Political, Political Equality

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

topic: Equality, Men, Long

- Elizabeth Gaskell

source: Elizabeth Gaskell (1872). “Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell”, p.315

topic: Equality, Night, Men

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

- Eric Berne

source: ERIC BERNE, M.D. (1964). “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

topic: Nature, Boys, Equality, Birds Wings, Bird Watching

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

- Erica Jong

topic: Women, Equality, Sisterhood, Equality Of People, Powerlessness

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

- Eugene V. Debs

topic: Equality, Class, Diversity, Commonality, Kinship

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

- Evan Esar

topic: Equality, Men, Equal

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

- Evan Esar

topic: Equality, Men, Born

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

- Felix Frankfurter

source: Dennis v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1950)

topic: Wise, Equality, Men, Social Inequality, Equal Treatment

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

- Ferdinand Mount

source: "Mind the Gap". Book by Ferdinand Mount, 2004.

topic: Opportunity, Equality, Equality Of Opportunity

By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.

- Florence King

topic: Equality, Envy, Democracy, Accessibility, Tinkering

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

- Frances Fox Piven

topic: Believe, Struggle, Equality

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

- Frances Wright

source: Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.25

topic: Inspirational, Equality, Community, Liberty And Equality, Fairness And Equality

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

- Francis Picabia

topic: Equality, Boredom, Unfair, Monotony

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Equality, Pay, Principles

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Opportunity, Equality, Individual, Equality Of Opportunity

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

- Franz Boas

source: Franz Boas (2014). “Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)”, p.75, Routledge

topic: Intelligent, Equality, Race, Cultural Diversity, Different Cultures

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

- Friedrich August von Hayek

topic: Equality, Government, Liberty, Economic Equality, Free Government

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

- Friedrich August von Hayek

topic: Determination, Mean, Equality, Authoritarian Government

I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Character, Mean, Equality

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

- George Orwell

topic: Funny, Sarcasm, Equality, Power Corruption, Funny Sarcastic

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

- George Smathers

topic: Believe, Equality, Social, Social Equality

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

- Gerry Adams

topic: Equality, Issues, Agendas

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Equality, People, Important

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

- Giuseppe Mazzini

topic: Equality, Lovely, Liberty, Liberty And Equality

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

- Golda Meir

topic: Jobs, Successful, 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.

- Grace Hartigan

topic: Fighting, Equality, Men

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Equality, Kind, Annoying

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

- Hannah Arendt

topic: Equality, Organization, Born

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

- Harlan F. Stone

source: Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, (100), 1943.

topic: Equality, People, Doctrine

Herein, lies the key to love. Love builds bridges. Soul exists because God loves It. Soul equals Soul; no one Soul is greater than another. Experience the greatest love of all.

- Harold Klemp

topic: Lying, Equality, Keys

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.

- Harry A. Blackmun

source: University of California Regents v. Bakke (opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part) (1978)

topic: Equality, Race, Order

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

- Harry Bridges

topic: War, Fighting, Equality

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

- Harvey Milk

source: Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.73, Univ of California Press

topic: Inspiring, Equality, Rights, Wheeling, Surveys

We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.

- Helen Gahagan Douglas

topic: Opportunity, Equality, Equal

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

- Henry Becque

topic: Equality, Desire, Defects

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

- Herbert Read

topic: Equality, Literature, World, Personal Wealth, Freedom And Equality

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

- Hjalmar Branting

topic: Equality, League, Giving

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

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Power, Equality, Facts

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

- Ignazio Silone

topic: Men, Equality, Law, Law And Justice

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

- Iris Murdoch

topic: Equality, Cry

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

- J. B. Priestley

topic: Change, Equality, Men

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

- Jacques Barzun

topic: Equality, Sublime, Conventions

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

- James Bovard

source: "An Interview with James Bovard". "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org. January 25, 2006.

topic: Father, Equality, Law, Founding, Mob Rule

The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms.

- James Fitzjames Stephen

source: Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.215

topic: Equality, Justice, Shapes

Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.

- James Kirke Paulding

source: Washington Irving, William Irving, James Kirke Paulding (1857). “Salmagundi: Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. [pseud.] and Others ....”, p.162

topic: Equality, Hands, Stupidity, Jugglers, Enterprising

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Equality, May, Upstairs, Lordship

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Humility, Equality, People

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

- Jane Addams

source: Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

topic: Inspiring, Peace, Equality, Social Equality, Social Change

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Equality, Practice, Abuse, Chimera

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

- Jenny Shipley

topic: Equality, Views, Development

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

- Jerry Brown

topic: Equality, Creative, Community

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

- Joe Baca

topic: Opportunity, Equality, People

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

- John Dewey

topic: Equality, Term, Aim, Global Economy

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

- John Foster Dulles

topic: Equality, Capacity, Indispensable, Hold Fast

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.

- John James Ingalls

source: John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

topic: Men, Equality, Democracy, Someone Dying, Prerogative

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

- John Milton

topic: Equality, Splendor, Assuming

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

- John Ruskin

topic: Sex, Equality, Giving

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Women, Equality, Beard, Women Equality, Equality Of Man

Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs, and to incur no civil disabilities because of his choice...

- Joseph Leon Blau

topic: Religious, Mean, Equality, Freedom Of Religion

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

- Josephine Baker

topic: Mean, Equality, Men, Born Free, Birth Place

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

- Josephine Baker

topic: War, Army, Equality

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

- Jostein Gaarder

source: Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.86, Hachette UK

topic: Women, Equality, Arms

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

- Judy Sheindlin

topic: Equality, Justice, Balance, Work Relationships, Equality And Justice

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Basketball, Athlete, Equality, Jackie, Exemplary

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

- Katherine Cecil Thurston

source: Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.22, tredition

topic: Equality, Men, He Man

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Equality, And Love, Generations

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

- Kim Campbell

topic: Equality, Justice, Tolerance, Canada Day, Equality And Justice

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Equality, Goal, Challenges, Reducing, Equality For All

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Country, Equality, Reality, Equality Of People, Prerequisites

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

- Krzysztof Kieslowski

topic: Equality, People, Liberty

Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

- L. Neil Smith

topic: Equality, Law, Each Day

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

- Langston Hughes

source: Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”

topic: Equality, Air, America, Clash Of Civilizations

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

- Leonard Boswell

topic: Opportunity, Equality, Years, March On Washington

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

- Linda Ellerbee

topic: Beauty, Equality, Differences, Equality For All, Susceptible

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

- Lionel Trilling

source: 1950 The Liberal Imagination,'Princess Casamassima'.

topic: Equality, Sense Of Humor, Progressive, Being Equal

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

topic: Equality, Odd Things, Disagree

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Equality, Men

Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.

- Lorene Cary

topic: Art, Children, Equality, Black Ice

It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end.

- Lydia M. Child

topic: Responsibility, Equality, Men, Brethren

The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.

- Lydia M. Child

topic: Country, Equality, Men

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Photography, Believe, Equality, Newspaper Reporters, Newspapers Journalism

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

- Mahnaz Afkhami

topic: Equality, Rights, Empowerment, Intertwined

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

- Mahnaz Afkhami

topic: Equality, Rights, Connections, Economic Development, Gender Equality

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

- Mahnaz Afkhami

topic: Equality, Rights, Design, Human Rights Day

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

- Malcolm X

topic: Knowledge, Thinking, Equality, Equality For All

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

- Marc Morial

topic: Mother, Queens, Equality, Equality And Justice, Acts Of Heroism

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

- Margaret Fell

source: Margaret Fell (1989). “Womens Speaking”

topic: Equality, Men, Differences

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

- Margaret Halsey

source: Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

topic: Equality, Assumption, Feels

I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.

- Margaret Oliphant

topic: Husband, Work, Equality

It was a national disgrace to lose the ERA, but of course we will start, and have done so, all over again. ... There is no deadline for equality in our society.

- Marguerite Rawalt

topic: Equality, Done, Our Society

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

- Maria W. Stewart

topic: Equality, Liberty, Earth, Liberty And Equality

give the man of color an equal opportunity with the white, from the cradle to manhood, and from manhood to the grave, and you would discover the dignified statesman, the man of science, and the philosopher.

- Maria W. Stewart

source: Maria W. Stewart (1879). “Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart: (Widow of the Late James W. Stewart) Now Matron of the Freedman's Hospital, and Presented in 1832 to the First African Baptist Church and Society of Boston, Mass”

topic: Opportunity, Equality, Men

I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

- Marietta Holley

topic: Angel, Son, Equality

It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral.

- Marietta Holley

source: Marietta Holley (1875). “My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book”, p.113

topic: Equality, Men, Thinking

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

- Marilyn French

topic: Men, Equality, Equal

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

- Mario Vargas Llosa

topic: Real, Sacrifice, Equality

We are all alike, on the inside.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspiration, Equality, Humanity, Hero Worship

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.

- Marlo Thomas

topic: Women, Equality, Feminist, Women Equality, Women's Rights

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

- Marlo Thomas

topic: Fighting, Equality, Guitar, Equality Of People

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

- Martha Plimpton

topic: Equality, Too Much, Way

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

- Martin Luther

topic: Equality, Kingdoms, Persons, Character Education, Serfs

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

topic: Inspirational, Health, Equality, Inhumane, Inhuman

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

topic: Dream, Son, Equality, Mississippi, Masters And Slaves

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

topic: Dream, Equality, Men, Inspirational Patriotic, Equality For All