Quotes About Equality

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

The business of government is justice.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

Women have no government.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.