Equality Quotes
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Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.
William Shakespeare -
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
Peggy Noonan
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Bumble was founded with several key values: empowerment, equality, and kindness. We are a company that was built to empower women and empower men to respect women. We want to create a place where all types of connections take place: a platform and a brand where women always make the first move.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.
Brad Thor -
Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights.
Abi Morgan -
Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The need for a national Employment Non-Discrimination Act a critical part of the LGBT community's struggle for equality.
Jared Polis -
We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriage equality and equality in general. These are complex, divisive issues in our society, and I think that the only way we further this conversation is to take them down to a very human scale.
Jeff Nichols -
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
John Bercow -
For at the real heart of battle for equality is a deep-seated belief in the democratic process. Equality depends not on the force of arms or tear gas but upon the force of moral right; not on recourse to violence but on respect for law and order.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.
D. H. Lawrence -
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.
William Henry Hudson
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Governments everywhere have ministries dedicated to women's affairs. I know of only one with a Ministry for Women Empowerment: Indonesia. Charged with the 'realization of gender equality and justice' together with children's well-being, the ministry frames gender equality as a matter of justice.
Arancha Gonzalez -
I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.
Bob Casey, Jr. -
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.
Pink -
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals.
Plato
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Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.
Chrystia Freeland -
An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
Antonio Munoz Molina -
If you believe in equality, you might be one of those inadvertent feminists that I spoke of earlier. And for this I applaud you. We are struggling for a uniting word but the good news is that we have a uniting movement. It is called HeForShe. I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen, and to ask yourself if not me, who, if not now when.
Emma Watson -
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
Bryant H. McGill