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Quotes About Equality

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
~ Frances Wright
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
~ James M. Barrie
The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
~ Evan Esar
The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.
~ Ludwig von Mises
My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.
~ Nina Turner
Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.
~ Murray Rothbard
Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
~ Malcolm X
If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.
~ Johnnetta B. Cole
We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.
~ Anita Hill
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
~ John Marshall
I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.
~ Philip Vera Cruz
Law and justice are not always the same.
~ Gloria Steinem
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
There is nothing more opposed to equality than identity.
~ Alice von Hildebrand
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.
~ Savielly Tartakower
Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
~ Voltaire
Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.
~ Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
~ Arthur Ashe
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
~ John Berger
Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.
~ Unknown