Equality Quotes
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I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.
Paul Newman -
The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.
Widad Akrawi
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We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.
Estelle Ramey -
If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.
Judy Sheindlin -
We deserve quality lives with equality.
Sarah Silverman -
Efforts to bar transgender people from restrooms are nothing more than an attempt to codify discrimination before our country advances any further on transgender equality.
Sarah McBride -
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 -
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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Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.
Paul Neilan -
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
Geraldine Ferraro -
Like liberals, anarchists want freedom; like socialists, anarchists want equality. But we are not satisfied by liberalism alone of by socialism alone. Freedom without equality means that the poor and the weak are less free than the rich and strong, and equality without freedom means that we are all slaves together. Freedom and equality are not contradictory, but complementary.
Nicolas Walter -
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 -
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.
Ezra Furman
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I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.
George Smathers -
I have to conclude, oh, the best people are all somebody other than my own race. So that's difficult. How do we interpret the Bible? Should we stress things like justice and that God is somebody who cares about equality of all people? Or is he a God of love and a God who's there to give me an afterlife?
Michael Emerson -
I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.
Richard Jefferies -
Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.
Rashid al-Ghannushi -
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 -
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Mikhail Bakunin
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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
Jimmy Carter -
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 -
Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
Will Durant -
Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.
Raja Krishnamoorthi