Quotes About Equality

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.

Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.

Appreciate her for who she is.

A man who boasts he's the head of the home must never forget the woman is the knife at his throat.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?