Equality Quotes

• At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

  

  Carol Gilligan
  • Time
  • Justice
  • Search

• Choose equality.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Equality

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

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Up
  • American
  • Equality

• Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Bad
  • Behavior
  • Indulge

• The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Equality
  • Economic
  • Meaning

• You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• It is not good to feel too much joy, nor to be glad that our body lives. For we matter not and it must not matter to us whether we live or die, which is to be as our brothers will it. But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Good
  • Live
  • Die

• The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.

  

  Lynn Schusterman
  • Justice
  • Struggle
  • King

• In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

  

  John Turner
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Excellence

• The position of woman has doubtless been elevated through the influence of Christianity, but... it is probably fair to say that most of the great Churches through their teaching and organization have exerted a conservative and retarding influence on the rise of woman to equality with man.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Great
  • Organization
  • Equality

• Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • History
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Equality
  • Sexes
  • Occupations

• Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Equality

• Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Believe
  • Men
  • American

• I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  

  Alice Paul
  • Equality

• My goal is to show girls that I'm fighting so they don't have to, so they don't have to fight the same battles, so they don't have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • May
  • Fighting
  • Equality

• With me and Kurt, it was either Bonnie and Clyde, Sid and Nancy, or mommy. That's where it got at the end, but the rest of the time it was equal. The equality was based on Bonnie and Clyde, which is fucking goddamn fun. And Romeo and Juliet. But it was also Hamlet and Hamlet. Not Hamlet and Ophelia. These two fucking Hamlets sitting around.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Rest

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

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • People
  • Equality

• As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Work
  • Job
  • Hope

• We have been sold a Muslim boogeyman. We are buying into it, and we are terrified, and that terror is causing people to lash out at comedians like myself or women wearing hijabs, or anyone who seems to defend equality for Muslims worldwide.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • People
  • Women
  • Equality

• Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament, character, and capacity - and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.

  

  Frank Chodorov
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Freedom

• If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Equality

• There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

  

  Laurence Tribe
  • Progress
  • Equality

• The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Facts

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