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Quotes About Equality

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!
~ Maria W. Stewart
My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.
~ John Oliver Killens
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.
~ Barbara Gittings
While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.
~ Carol Gilligan
The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
~ Sophia Loren
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.
~ Aimé Césaire
You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!
~ Leymah Gbowee
The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.
~ Henry Becque
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
~ Charles Dickens
No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.
~ Helen Clark
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
~ Dr. Seuss
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.
~ James L. Farmer, Jr.
Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.
~ Dilma Rousseff
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
~ H.L. Mencken
There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.
~ Charles Krauthammer
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
~ Edmund Burke
Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.
~ Amelia Bloomer
Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.
~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
~ Aristotle
Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.
~ Emma Watson
Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah