Quotes on Equality

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

Author: Gerry Adams

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Author: Gerry Adams

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

Author: Gerry Adams

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

Author: Bashar al-Assad

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Author: B. Ambedkar

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Author: B. Ambedkar

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Author: Kofi Annan

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Author: Kofi Annan

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Author: Arthur Ashe

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Author: Joe Baca

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Author: Honore Balzac

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

Author: Honore Balzac

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

Author: J. Barrie

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

Author: James Barrie

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

Author: Carol Bellamy

Do not fear being different, for it is your uniqueness that holds the power to change the world.

Author: Angela Davis

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Author: Theodore Bikel

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Author: Bono

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

Author: Robert Bork

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

Author: Leonard Boswell

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

Author: James Bovard

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

Author: Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.

Author: Hjalmar Branting

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

Author: Arthur Brooks

Empathy is not just about standing in someone else's shoes, it's about walking side by side with them.

Author: Bryan Stevenson

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

Author: Betty Buckley

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Author: Charlotte Bunch

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.

Author: Anne Campbell

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Author: Kim Campbell

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

Author: Robert Casey

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

Author: Robert Casey

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

Author: Emanuel Celler

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Author: Adam Clayton

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Author: Arthur Clough

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

Author: David Coe

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

Author: Mason Cooley

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Author: Pierre Coubertin

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

Author: Herbert Croly

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

Author: Adrian Cronauer

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

Author: Andrew Cuomo

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

Author: Paul Dirac

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Author: Mary Douglas

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

Author: Mary Douglas

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

Author: Mary Douglas

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

Author: Andrea Dworkin

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

Author: Bob Dylan

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

Author: Warren Farrell

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.

Author: William Faulkner

Embrace the beauty of your uniqueness, for in a world of copies, authenticity is your greatest strength.

Author: Michelle Obama

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Author: Anatole France

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Author: Anatole France

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Author: Erich Fromm

In a world where conformity reigns supreme, the courageous choice to embrace your true self is an act of rebellion and liberation.

Author: Maya Angelou

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

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

Author: Khalil Gibran

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Author: Ruth Ginsburg

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Author: Ruth Ginsburg

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Author: Ruth Ginsburg

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.

Author: Barry Goldwater

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

Author: Tarja Halonen

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

Author: Tarja Halonen

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.

Author: Anne Hathaway

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.

Author: Friedrich Hayek

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Author: Friedrich Hayek

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

Author: Arthur Henderson

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Author: Herodotus

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Author: Oliver Holmes, Jr.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

Author: John Hope

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

Author: David Horowitz

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

Author: John Hume

Do not be afraid to stand out, for it is the ones who dare to be different that leave the greatest legacy.

Author: Michelle Obama

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Author: Thomas Huxley

In 1965, I marched for equality.

Author: Alphonso Jackson

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Author: Andrew Jackson

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

Author: Bianca Jagger

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Author: Muhammad Jinnah

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Author: Pope John XXIII

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Author: Samuel Johnson

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Author: Samuel Johnson

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

Author: Krzysztof Kieslowski

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Author: Michael Kinsley

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

Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

Author: Vladimir Kramnik

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

Author: Irving Kristol

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

Author: Stephen Lewis

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

Author: Ken Livingstone

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Author: Mario Llosa

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

Author: Tran Luong

Just because you are different, doesn't mean you are any less valuable than anyone else.

Author: Amanda Gorman

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Author: Catharine MacKinnon

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Author: Agnes Macphail

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Author: Malcolm Malcolm X

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Author: Thomas Malthus

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Author: Thomas Mann

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

Author: Paul Martin

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

Author: Paul Martin

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Author: Mary McCarthy

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

Author: Bryant McGill

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

Author: Ed Miliband

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

Author: Slobodan Milosevic

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Author: Slobodan Milosevic

Success is not defined by the amount of money you make, but by the difference you make in the world.

Author: Michelle Obama

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

Author: Marc Morial

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Author: Ferdinand Mount

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

Author: Robert Mugabe

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Author: Iris Murdoch

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

Author: Bob Ney

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Author: Peggy Noonan

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Author: Max Nordau

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

Author: Eleanor Norton

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Author: Barack Obama

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

Author: Rosie O'Donnell

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Author: George Orwell

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Author: Thomas Paine

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Author: Tom Palmer

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

Author: Kathleen Parker

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Author: Alice Paul

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

Author: Steven Pinker

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Author: Plato

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

Author: Plato

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Author: Dennis Prager

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Author: Mark Pryor

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

Author: Nick Rahall

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

Author: Nick Rahall

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

Author: Charles Rangel

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Author: Herbert Read

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

Author: Maureen Reagan

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Author: Robert Reich

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

Author: Tom Robbins

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Author: Maximilien Robespierre

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

Author: Mike Rogers

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

Author: Alice Rossi

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Author: Carl Schurz

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.

Author: Charles Secondat

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

Author: Anna Shaw

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Author: Jenny Shipley

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

Author: Luiz Silva

Success is not defined by how high you climb, but by how many are lifted up with you.

Author: Maya Angelou

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

Author: George Smathers

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Author: Susan Sontag

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

Author: Leland Stanford

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Author: Elizabeth Stanton

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Author: Harlan Stone

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Author: Marlo Thomas

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

Author: Alexis Tocqueville

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.

Author: Alexis Tocqueville