Equality Quotes
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. (Quote by - Robert Ingersoll)
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. (Quote by - Agnes Macphail)
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men. (Quote by - John Randolph)
We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead. (Quote by - Ralph Bunche)
The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. (Quote by - Henry Becque)
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. (Quote by - Aristotle)
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. (Quote by - Arthur Ashe)
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities. (Quote by - Paul Burton)
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. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
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. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. (Quote by - Tocqueville)
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. (Quote by - Florence King)
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear. (Quote by - Isa Upanishad)
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. (Quote by - Francis Picabia)
The love of democracy is that of equality. (Quote by - Charles Montesquieu)
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. (Quote by - Joseph Farrell)
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. (Quote by - René Descartes)
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. (Quote by - Viscount Samuel)
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or colour is like living in Alaska and being against snow. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. (Quote by - Mary McCarthy)
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. (Quote by - Eugene V. Debs)
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. (Quote by - Voltaire)
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. (Quote by - Charles Montesquieu)
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
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. (Quote by - John James Ingalls)
In America everybody is of 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. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality. (Quote by - Alex Salmond)
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality. (Quote by - Baron Pierre De Coubertin)
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future. (Quote by - Shri Haidakhan Babaji)
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. (Quote by - Ignazio Silone)
The sole equality on earth is death. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey )
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. (Quote by - Mao Tse-Tung)
No man is above the law, and no man is below it. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. (Quote by - George Orwell)
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The idea of bringing all men on an equality with each other has always been a pleasant dream; the law cannot equalize men in spite of nature. (Quote by - Luc De Vauvanargues)
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
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. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it. (Quote by - Ninon de L'Enclos)
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. (Quote by - Arthur Hugh Clough)
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery. (Quote by - Tocqueville)
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words! (Quote by - Giuseppe Mazzini)
Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better. (Quote by - Anna Chennault)
We have a problem for those who advocate competitive equality of opportunity: the prizes won in the competitions of the first generation will tend to defeat the requirements of equality of opportunity for the next. (Quote by - Lloyd Thomas)
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
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. (Quote by - James Kirke Paulding)
Men are born equal but they are also born different. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. (Quote by - Irving Kristol)
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. (Quote by - Carl Schurz)
Equality is the life of conversation; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below the rest of society. (Quote by - Sir Richard Steele)
The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
It is untrue that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality; its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. (Quote by - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues)
We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat. (Quote by - Bernard M. Baruch)
The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. (Quote by - Aristotle)
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. (Quote by - Linda Ellerbee)
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. (Quote by - Pope John XXIII)
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. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
All men are created equal, It is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. (Quote by - David Allan Coe)
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. (Quote by - Frances Wright)
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, or to steal bread. (Quote by - Anatole France)
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. (Quote by - Andrew Jackson)
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. (Quote by - Marlo Thomas)
we are all of 1 accord Strike all our souls the same notechord It is only God whom we'll call Lord not those of butcher stock or warlords. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
