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Quotes About Equality

We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
~ Samuel Johnson
Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...
~ Unknown
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
~ Lucretia Mott
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.
~ Anthony Liccione
The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.
~ bell hooks
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
~ Unknown
Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.
~ Emma Watson
Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.
~ N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.
~ Hayley Williams
there is but only one form of socioeconomic society whereby all members of its social group hold unmerited equal status...A social collective/socialist or slave society!".
~ Err:509
Never place yourself above your fellow man, for we are all, each and every one of us, born of equal rights to the nourishing earth beneath and the wonder of the stars above.
~ Becca Lee
Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.
~ Unknown
All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.
~ Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?
~ Stetson Kennedy
Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.
~ N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
Dominating others is not equality.
~ Christina Engela, Loderunner
Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out - are.
~ Jon Stewart
If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does.
~ Unknown