Equality Quotes
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The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
Evan Esar
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Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
Cato the Younger
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Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness.
David Niu
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
Anthony Trollope
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Whenever I talk about being a feminist or speaking out for equality, it's also about the idea that men are treated with respect. It's not just about treating women like people and not abusing them. You also can't abuse men and you can't say things like, 'Oh, he was just a man. He didn't know any better.' Or 'He's a man, what did you expect?' That's just as abusive and damaging to men, I feel.
Evan Rachel Wood
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono U2
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I was always like that, at 5 years old, just demanding equality. I thought it could all be fixed if you called attention to it.
Amy Schumer
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We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.
Estelle Ramey
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Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
Winifred Holtby
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There is no one here who is demanding a free gift, we all work very diligently and very hard and what we want to see is equality across the globe and an equal chance for everyone.
Darren Sammy
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Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.
Iain Benson
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I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
Anne Hathaway
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The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.
Amy Richards
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Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.
Robin Williams
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I use “equal worth” rather than equality because the latter term often assumes that men’s historical experience—whether economic, political, or sexual—is the standard to which women should aspire.
Estelle Freedman
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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.
Hillary Clinton
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Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.
Hillary Clinton
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There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.
Harry S Truman
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We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.
Mitchell Baker
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I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.
Carre Otis