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Quotes About Equality

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.
~ Marlene Dietrich
I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.
~ Huey Long
I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
~ Robin Morgan
No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.
~ Zeno of Citium
It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.
~ Mae West
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
~ Francois Fenelon
The woman represents ballet. She is most important, powerful and vital to it. Therefore, she is not "less than" a man. If anything she is "more than" in this field.
~ Misty Copeland
Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
~ Adolf Hitler
When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.
~ Laverne Cox
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
~ Angie Stone
Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.
~ Frederick Douglass
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
~ Thomas Jefferson
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
~ Aristotle
I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
~ Maya Angelou
I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.
~ Jackie Robinson
A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.
~ Enver Hoxha
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
~ Charles Darwin
If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.
~ Hammurabi
The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?
~ Marcus Garvey