Equality Quotes

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people...

There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man.

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have ...

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Equality in possessions must be the last result of the utmost refinements of civilization; it is one...

The terms `Husband' and `Wife' are inappropriate. They are only companions ad partners. One does not...

When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better th...

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality ...

If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it i...

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambig...

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the rig...

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, ...

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,The fate of empires and the fall of kings;While quacks ...

In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness...

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a r...

Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every...

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not ...

For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up th...

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themsel...

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...

But before we cue the brass section to blare "The Stars and Stripes Forever," it might be worth taki...

Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially a...

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capital...

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Ya...

In my own opinion (key word), the foundation of feminism is this: being able to choose. The core of ...

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical cla...

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, l...

The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and sh...

These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka liv...

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when w...

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's e...

Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breas...

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequa...

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

. . . and what are you exactly, my friend? Their subordinate? Their employee? Or, I would suggest, t...

But all this business about kings and lords, it's against basic human dignity. We're all born equal....

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they...

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, bu...

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

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

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

We should not take part in acting a lie any more than in telling a lie. Weshould not say that men ar...

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this eno...

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by th...

It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: M...

No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black ...

We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit...

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, th...

Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by so...

Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by wh...

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they...

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he ne...

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but...

There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. Y...

The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think ...

The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless,...

Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and sm...

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whateve...

I insist that the question of the future is how best to keep these millions from brooding over the w...

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.

ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it...

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were ...

My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals...

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade o...

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability des...

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are swor...

Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,...

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bun...

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have be...

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantag...

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impa...

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or...

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person k...

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived i...

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them withou...

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about l...

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

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure ...

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given hi...