Political Equality Quotes:

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

- George Orwell

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

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

topic: Dream, Children, Integrity, Good Character, Social Equality

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Office, Favors, Causes Of War, Jurors

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

- Edmund Burke

source: Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784

topic: Wisdom, Giving Up, Freedom, Liberty And Equality, Civil Liberties

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Equality, Self, Political, Political Equality

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Reality, Thinking, Political, Social Equality, Political Equality

To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Self, Law, Punishment, Political Equality, Recompense

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Color, Judging, People, Good Character, Social Equality

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.305, e-artnow

topic: Political, Liberty, Minutes, Political Equality

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

- Herbert Hoover

source: Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.162, Stanford University Press

topic: Government, People, Soul, Daily Work, Working Life

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States. Executive Office of the President (1995). “Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton: United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, September 5-6, 1995, China”

topic: Rights, Politics, Speak, Women's Rights, Women In Politics

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Race, White, Causes Of War, Secession

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

- Steven Pinker

topic: Commitment, Equality, People, Political Equality

It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

topic: Religious, Educational, Character, Exponents, Personal Rights

What would it mean if we lived in a world in which no one held out for the possibility of substantial political equality, or for a full cessation of colonial practices - if no one held out for those things because they were impossible?

- Judith Butler

source: Source: www.opendemocracy.net

topic: Mean, Practice, Political, Political Equality

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Fate, Political, Feminism, Contingency, Political Equality

...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation of the cherished value of political equality. At the same time, it does not protect the interests of small states or racial minorities, nor does it serve as a bastion of federalism. Instead the Electoral College distorts the presidential campaign so that candidates ignore most small states - and many large ones - and pay little attention to minorities.

- George C. Edwards III

topic: College, Two, Presidential, Electoral College, Political Equality

Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.

- John Bonifaz

topic: Fighting, Play, Political, Equality For All, Political Equality

Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.

- Estelle Freedman

topic: Men, Political, Understanding, Social Hierarchy, Political Equality