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Quotes About Equality

If you are pure in your heart and strong in your decisions, you are equal to the whole world, you will be a one man army.
~ Vivekananda
In modern times this millennial aspiration takes the form of equality--of liberty, equality, and fraternity. This is also fanaticism. True equality has never been and never can be on earth.
~ Vivekananda
People laugh at me because I am different; I laugh at people cause the are all the same.
~ Unknown
When was the first I knew something about her in a world where men were sex, but women?—weren't we just supposed to get out of the way when we saw it coming?
~ Vivian Gornick
No lo sé. Lo único que sé es que es lista, que se merece una formación y que la va a tener. Éstos son los Estados Unidos. Las chicas no son vacas que pacen a la espera de que las crucen con un toro.
~ Vivian Gornick
i could not but be moved -- by the great and the humble alike -- to pity and admiration for those who demonstrated repeatedly that to ' be and do' is not a given.
~ Vivian Gornick
If the room were always like this there would be no need for our new rule. Everyone is occupied with individual projects directed toward a goal created by the teacher. No one is excluded; every contribution will be given equal attention and find equal expression in the margins of the Magpie story. No problems here. The rule is needed for all those other times, the bulk of the day, when public and private needs and obligations are in conflict.
~ Unknown
it is most useful to think about these questions not in terms of the individual rights of transsexuals, but in terms of how these issues link with those of other marginalized populations, or with the functioning of the state in general.
~ Unknown
Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
~ Vivienne Westwood
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
~ Vivienne Westwood
No, democracy is not identical with the subordination of the minority to the majority. Democracy is a state which recogizes the subordination of the minority to the majority, i.e., an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one section of the population against another.
~ Unknown
I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart's content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.
~ Unknown
The exploiting classes need political rule to maintain exploitation, i.e., in the selfish interests of an insignificant minority against the vast majority of all people. The exploited classes need political rule in order to completely abolish all exploitation, i.e., in the interests of the vast majority of the people, and against the insignificant minority consisting of the modern slave-owners – the landowners and capitalists.
~ Unknown
We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order.
~ Unknown
The goal of Socialism is Communism.
~ Unknown
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
~ Unknown
Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Por isso dizemos que para nós não há uma moral situada fora da sociedade humana; isso é um engano. Para nós, a moral está subordinada aos interesses da luta de classes do proletariado.
~ Vladimir Lenin
This is so true [...]
~ Vladimir Lenin
Social-Democracy leads the struggle of the working class not only for better terms for the sale of labour power, but also for the abolition of the social system which compels the propertyless to sell themselves to the rich
~ Vladimir Lenin