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Quotes About Equality

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.
~ Algernon Sidney
The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men
~ Alice Walker
Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.
~ Alix Kates Shulman
I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.
~ Allan Nairn
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
~ Amelia Barr
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
~ Andre Gide
The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
~ Andrew Greeley
In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.
~ Andrew Jackson
All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
~ Andy Rooney
It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype.
~ Anna Wintour
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
~ Aristophanes
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
~ Aristotle
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
~ Aristotle
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
~ Aristotle
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
~ Aristotle
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
~ Arthur Ashe
Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.
~ Arthur Jafa
If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.
~ Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
~ Bainbridge Colby