Equality Quotes
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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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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
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We deserve quality lives with equality.
Sarah Silverman
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I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.
Ezra Furman
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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 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 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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Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
Nick Rahall
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.
Rashid al-Ghannushi
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
Will Durant
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God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
Rex Stout
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If in the past, after every lost war, the unlucky vanquished were divested forever of their honor and their equality of rights, the League of Nations would even now have to be satisfied with a whole series of non-equal and thus ultimately dishonorable and inferior nations.
Adolf Hitler
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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
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I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.
George Smathers
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The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.
Catherine the Great
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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
Milton Friedman
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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
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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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He talks about human equality, the rights of man, nothing but that. How about the rights of woman, I’d like to scream at him. It’s fine to be a great democrat when you’ve a slave to rub your boots on.
Christina Stead
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Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Sandra Day O'Connor