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Quotes About Equality

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
~ Horace
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
~ Ian McShane
There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
~ Idris Elba
Since all men are created equal, I have to thank God I was born a woman.
~ Ingrid Weir
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.
~ Iris Murdoch
Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
~ Isabel Allende
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
~ J. G. Holland
It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men.
~ J. K. Rowling
A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
~ James A. Baldwin
I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.
~ James F. Cooper
Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
~ James Hillman
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
~ James Russell Lowell
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
~ James Russell Lowell
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
~ James Russell Lowell
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
~ James Russell Lowell
Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
~ James Thurber
To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind
~ Jane Austen
Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.
~ Jane Fonda
I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.
~ Jane Fonda
Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.
~ Jane Silber
There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.
~ Jasper Fforde
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
~ Javier Bardem
I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like, "Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me
~ Jay-Z
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
~ Jean de la Bruyere