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Quotes About Equality

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.
~ Bob Marley
The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
~ Ben Kingsley
To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.
~ Robert M. Hensel
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.
~ William Rehnquist
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
there are no nationalities in heaven.
~ Marthe Bibesco
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
~ Thomas Paine
I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
~ Charles de Gaulle
If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.
~ Anita Hill
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
~ Arthur Hugh Clough
If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.
~ John Dewey
I was born pretty lucky, an Aryan Australian, friendly girl, that gives you a lot of advantages in the world. I was unaware of people's fights or struggles for equality. I was really naive.
~ Sia Furler
We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.
~ Estelle Ramey
There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.
~ Harry S. Truman
Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
~ Will Durant
There is equality in the office but not on the street.
~ Unknown
Mortals are equal; their mask differs.
~ Voltaire
It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek