Equality Quotes

213. Party politics are quite upsetting. I’ve been a member of the Labour party, the Green party, the Women’s Equality Party, the National Health Action Party and now I’m not a member of any.

^{Jack Monroe}

214. It’s not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It’s not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: ‘He believed in equality and he helped the poor.’

^{Joe Jamail}

215. I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It’s called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality, justice and peace through democracy.

^{John McDonnell}

216. We believe that when all nations adhere to international rules and norms and when we conduct on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect, our nations feel secure, and our economies prosper.

^{Sushma Swaraj}

217. Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

^{Chrystia Freeland}

218. The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

^{Alexis de Tocqueville}

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

^{Mario Vargas Llosa}

220. Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

^{Pratibha Patil}

221. We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

^{Ruby Bridges}

222. When you don’t have equality of opportunity because you don’t have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

^{Joseph Stiglitz}

223. I could speak for hours about equality and what needs to change in football and in society as a whole. But in the end, everything comes back to respect.

^{Ada Hegerberg}

224. For most of our nation’s history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world – for whites, anyway.

^{Charles Murray}

225. At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

^{Carol Gilligan}

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

^{Andrew Cuomo}

229. I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

^{Agnes Macphail}

230. 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}

231. I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren’t. And it’s just not – there is no equality there.

^{Connie Chung}

234. A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

^{Jimmy Carter}

235. Equality for women is progress for all.

^{Ban Ki-moon}

237. The Nordic countries are leading the way on women’s equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

^{Johanna Siguroardottir}

239. There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don’t pan out.

^{Laurence Tribe}

240. 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.

^{Charlie Kirk}

241. If you always have consciousness of gender equality at the heart of your policies, then you will have much more democratic, much more sustainable development.

^{Isabella Lovin}

242. Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

^{Antonio Guterres}

243. We’ve come quite far with the idea of equality between sexes, but there’s still a lot of conversations that need to be had about men in power.

^{Jonathan Bailey}

244. There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.

^{Ayelet Shaked}

246. Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

^{Robert Toombs}

247. Religious freedom is a proud founding principle of America and ethnic bigotry flies in the face of American principles of liberty and equality.

^{Madison Cawthorn}

252. I’m proud to be a feminist because making sure that everyone understands we all have a role in fighting for equality is the only way to move forward.

^{Justin Trudeau}

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

^{Steven Pinker}

254. 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}

255. The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

^{Ruth Bader Ginsburg}

256. Unlike some people, my father would try to meet with President-elect Trump because he recognizes that in order to move the agenda of justice, freedom, and equality forward, you can’t just protest and resist. You also have to negotiate as well.

^{Bernice King}

257. 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.

^{Bashar al-Assad}

258. When we talk about pay equality, I think we’re misunderstanding where the problem lies.

^{Stacy Martin}

259. The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

^{Carolyn Maloney}

260. The Commonwealth Games here are a model for what sport can, and should, be. It’s an incredible environment and an amazing atmosphere. Without any doubt, they have lived up to the mantra of humanity, equality and decency.

^{Laurel Hubbard}

261. Each country has a soul, and France’s soul is equality.

^{Francois Hollande}

262. In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.

^{Tsai Ing-wen}

263. My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

^{Chris Evans}

266. The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.

^{Liz Kendall}

269. We are all about the equality through society and sport.

^{Ben Stokes}

275. The Labour party is mainly full of amazing people who care so much about equality and social justice they are probably a bit of a bore at a family do.

^{Jess Phillips}

276. We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.

^{Adrienne Mayor}

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

^{Samuel Johnson}

278. Roosevelt’s New Deal regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted national infrastructure on the principle that the role of government was not simply to protect the property of the wealthy, but rather was to promote equality of opportunity for all.

^{Heather Cox Richardson}

279. Equality means allowing people to achieve their full potential – for themselves and for their country.

^{Penny Mordaunt}

281. Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

^{Jim Cooper}

282. Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free… Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

^{A. Philip Randolph}

283. Without women’s equal access to positions of decision-making power and a clear process to get there, gender equality, global security, and peace will never be realized.

^{Winnie Byanyima}

284. I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I’m not really attached to a label.

^{O. T. Fagbenle}