Equality Quotes

"Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just happen - people made it happen. And marriage equality didn't just happen, either - people made it happen."

"Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility."

"Addressing climate change globally promotes health, education and gender equality. Addressing it domestically secures U.K. jobs and sustainable clean economic growth; it protects communities from flooding and the scandal of fuel poverty. It begins to see clean air flow in our cities and schools."

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality."

"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."

"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."

"America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law."

"American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality."

"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."

"Any government I lead will continue with the equality of gay and lesbian people."

"As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance."

"As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction."

"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."

"As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more."

"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."

"As the father of two daughters, the ongoing struggle for women's equality is very personal for me. That's why it has been an honor during my time in Congress to support women's rights by advocating for reproductive rights, equal pay, access to paid maternity leave and quality child care."

"At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress."

"Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community."

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region."

"Bumble is about equality. We are reverse-engineering traditional societal norms."

"Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife."

"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."

"Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation."

"Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment. But moral responsibility goes further, reflecting the need for corporations to address fundamental ethical issues such as inclusion, dignity, and equality."

"Cultural Marxism that has permeated all of Europe and has been the driving force that has brought France - the nation of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality - to the brink."

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal."

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

"Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal."

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

"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."

"Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world."

"Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality."

"Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor."

"Equality for women is progress for all."

"Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently."

"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."

"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it."

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism."

"Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order."

"For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole."

"For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations."

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

"From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation."