Quotes About Equality

wish I was a better human. I wish we had food for the hungry and harmony between nations.

From the point of view of morality, it is not important that everyone should have the same. What is morally important is that each should have enough.

From the point of view of morality, it is not important everyone should have the same. What is morally important is that each should have enough.

from a moral point of view, economic equality does not really matter very much, and our moral and political concepts may be better focused on ensuring that people have enough.

The doctrines of egalitarianism and of sufficiency are logically independent: considerations that support the one cannot be presumed to provide support also for the other.

This is the start of a new era, equal rights for men and women." She smiled at him and slid into her chair without another word. Damn, he thought, for another look like that I'd give her the whole thing.

Sovereignty...as understood in the Declaration of Independence was originally, and by nature, the equal and unalienable possession of individual human beings. The original equality of all human beings was an equality of sovereignty; no man had more right to rule another than the other had to rule him.

mobocratic spirit, which all must admit, is now abroad in the land.

Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.

Still, in the end, we all die just the same.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.

If people aren't equal, where would you fit in?

If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds true with me.

Nature grants its beauty to us all, drawing no line between rich and poor.

fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek

That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with the terrain.

I don't like ringing the bell at the door. Its' tingaling just sounds beautiful. It makes one equal innocent sound, and it doesn't matter who is ringing. But knocking is distinctive. Human beats something physically - you can hear the reflected feeling. Of course, the hand always gets slightly painful.

As Ali meaningfully once remarked: 'If you are not my brother in faith you are my equal in humanity.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." —Shirley Chisholm

We work side by side, and some of us imagine that because we are equal under the law, we are also the same. We are and should be equal under the law. But we are not the same - despite what some activists and politicians, journalists and academics would have us believe.