Equality Quotes

• It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

  

  Bono U2
  • Justice
  • Equality
  • Real Pain

• 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.
  • Reality
  • Equality
  • I Think

• Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

  

  Anne Campbell
  • Country
  • Future
  • Equality

• The untold secret driving the obstruction to Obama's economic equality agenda is this: The opposition isn't really battling Big Government. The opposition is protecting an economic system that's putting more and more of the earned income out of reach for those aspiring to better themselves.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Driving
  • Equality

• Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

  

  Plato
  • Democracy
  • Equality

• Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Law
  • Equality
  • Human Power

• His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

  

  James M. Barrie
  • May
  • Equality

• 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and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.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.
  • Believe
  • Support
  • Marriage

• 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
  • Country
  • Society
  • Marriage

• There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.

  

  Ayelet Shaked
  • Equality
  • Rights
  • Jewish

• We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Differences
  • Smallest
  • Meanness

• To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Together
  • Black
  • Community

• Israel remains and embattled democracy in the midst of authoritarian states, and the birthplace of the kibbutz to which tens of thousands of youth from around the world have turned for a living lesson in human equality.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Equality

• I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

  

  Josephine Baker
  • Freedom
  • Equality
  • France

• By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

  

  Scott Fujita
  • Country
  • Gay
  • Rights

• In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Important
  • Relationships
  • Fact

• Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Reason
  • Justice

• When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Young
  • Taught
  • Religions

• [My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

  

  P. D. James
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Father

• Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

  

  Allen West
  • People
  • American
  • Achievement

• Jews were, are, and will remain ideological dope dealers smart enough not to smoke their own stash. They sell equality heroin to you, but they never inject it themselves.

  

  Alex Linder
  • Smart
  • Equality
  • Jews

• The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

  

  Morris Dees
  • Tolerance
  • Goodness
  • Concepts

• 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.

  

  Simone Weil
  • Attention
  • Needs
  • Human

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