Quotes About Equality

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly?

Am I not a man and brother?

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

I don't care how far we've come with "women's liberation," with all these things. In a man's mind, he still needs to be the support of his family. He needs to hold up the world.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.