logo

Quotes About Equality

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
~ Ayrton Senna
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
~ James Buchanan
The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
~ James Meredith
If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.
~ Hammurabi
He who lowers his mind to the dust of all men's feet, Sees the Name of God enshrined in every heart.
~ Guru Arjan
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
~ Annie Besant
How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?
~ Shane Claiborne
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
~ Warren G. Harding
Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.
~ Hank Williams, Jr.
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.
~ Barbara Jordan
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
~ Walt Whitman
To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.
~ Albert Lutuli
A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.
~ Carole Lombard
You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.
~ Rod Blagojevich
Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
~ Betty Dodson
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
~ David Riesman
All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.
~ Harvey Milk
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
~ W. S. Gilbert
Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
~ Warren G. Harding
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
~ Margaret Fuller
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.
~ Timothy Thomas Fortune