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Quotes About Equality

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.
~ Ralph Abernathy
There's no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.
~ Shakira
Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.
~ Jean Chretien
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
~ James Madison
Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.
~ Francois-Noel Babeuf
Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.
~ Julian Bond
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
~ Delphine de Girardin
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
~ Oliver Tambo
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
~ Jane Addams
It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.
~ Manitonquat
As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.
~ Edward Kennedy
I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.
~ Frances Fox Piven
The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.
~ Robert K. Greenleaf
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
~ Murray Bookchin
We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.
~ Bernie Sanders
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!
~ Pope Francis
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
~ Leah Ward Sears
Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew.
~ Heinz Galinski
My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
~ James H. Cone
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon