Equality Quotes

48. We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

^{George Mason}

49. The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

^{Margaret Thatcher}

50. In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

^{Harry A. Blackmun}

51. 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.

^{Marlo Thomas}

52. The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

^{Emma Goldman}

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

^{Agnes Macphail}

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

^{Khalil Gibran}

55. The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

^{Iris Murdoch}

56. The sole equality on earth is death.

^{Philip James Bailey}

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

^{David Allan Coe}

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

^{Ruth Bader Ginsburg}

59. The word ‘equality’ shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it’s not the American way.

^{Martha Plimpton}

60. The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

^{Bella Abzug}

61. Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

^{Warren Farrell}

62. 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.

^{Adam Clayton}

63. We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

^{Lionel Trilling}

64. People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

^{Linda Ellerbee}

65. The man who didn’t want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

^{Earl Wilson}

66. I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn’t be so outspoken.

^{Betty Ford}

67. I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy – I don’t disparage envy, but I don’t accept it as legitimately my master.

^{Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.}

68. All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

^{Kevin Kelly}

69. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

^{Martin Luther King, Jr.}

70. It’s just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

^{Jane Wiedlin}

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

^{Alexis de Tocqueville}

72. Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

^{Susan B. Anthony}

73. If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

^Aristotle

74. The idea of equal rights was in the air.

^{Lucy Stone}

75. Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

^{Jason Mraz}

76. I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it’s equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

^{Brad Thor}

77. A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

^{Sidonie Gabrielle Colette}

78. You can’t state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

^{Zadie Smith}

79. 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.

^{Abraham Lincoln}

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

^{George Orwell}

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

^{Friedrich August von Hayek}

82. Private religious speech can’t be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

^{Samuel Alito}

83. When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

^{Billie Jean King}

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

^{Marlee Matlin}

85. I am sure that every one of my colleagues – Democrat, Republican, and Independent – agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

^{Barbara Boxer}

86. Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

^{Mercy Otis Warren}

87. 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.

^{Katy Perry}

88. 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.

^{Maximilien Robespierre}

89. 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.

^Aristotle

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

^{Martin Luther King, Jr.}

91. Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

^{Mike Honda}

92. Suffrage is the pivotal right.

^{Susan B. Anthony}

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

^{Kofi Annan}

95. We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

^{Bella Abzug}

96. Women have a lot to say about how to advance women’s rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

^{Charlotte Bunch}

97. 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.

^{Samuel Johnson}