Equality Quotes

369. The idea of bringing equality not just to entertainment but to every walk of life – I think it’s very important.

^{Ellie Bamber}

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

^{Luiz Inacio Lula da Silv}

378. Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women’s rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

^{Curtis Mayfield}

379. My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.

^{Chris Long}

380. Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I’m sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will join the struggle for civil equality in Israel.

^{Ayman Odeh}

381. If you’re a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it’s about equality, it’s about respect, it’s about making the best of the world that we have.

^{Justin Trudeau}

382. The thirst for liberation and equality can never come at the expense of dehumanizing other marginalized groups – especially at a time when hate crimes against Jews have increased significantly.

^{Jemele Hill}

383. In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

^{Pankaj Mishra}

384. The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that’s why it’s a struggle for all the population.

^{Ayman Odeh}

385. We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let’s-take-care-of-one-another. That’s the creative challenge.

^{Jerry Brown}

386. 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.

^Montesquieu

387. If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.

^{Chiang Kai-shek}

388. There’s an ongoing discussion around equality, and age is one thing that has a very different presence around women than it does around men.

^{Edith Bowman}

389. 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.

^{David Horowitz}

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

^{Bryant H. McGill}

391. Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

^{Slobodan Milosevic}

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

^{Slobodan Milosevic}

393. 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.

^{Harlan Stone}

394. In 1965, I marched for equality.

^{Alphonso Jackson}

395. 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.

^{Arthur Henderson}

396. Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

^{Mordecai Wyatt Johnson}

397. The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

^{Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero}

398. 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.

^{Mary Douglas}

399. 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.

^{John Hume}

400. 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 theequality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

^{Betty Buckley}

401. 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.

^{Joe Baca}

Quotes About Equality 401 – 500

402. We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

^{Ferdinand Mount}

403. 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.

^{Hjalmar Branting}

404. The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

^{Lyman Trumbull}

405. 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.

^{Leland Stanford}

406. 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.

^{Gerry Adams}

407. 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.

^{Emanuel Celler}

408. 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.

^{Vladimir Kramnik}

409. 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.

^{Bob Ney}

410. 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.

^{Herbert Croly}

411. The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

^{Robert Toombs}

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

^{Nick Rahall}

413. 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.

^{Nick Rahall}

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

^{Kareem Abdul-Jabbar}

415. From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

^{Paul Tsongas}

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

^{George Smathers}

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

^{Ken Livingstone}

418. 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.

^{Robert Reich}

419. How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge – just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

^{Frances Wright}

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

^{Thomas Huxley}

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

^{Alice S. Rossi}

422. In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

^{Raoul Vaneigem}

423. 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.

^{Kathleen Parker}

424. 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.

^{Ed Miliband}

425. As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

^{Hilary Rosen}

426. The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

^{Dan Savage}