Equality Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of equality quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.”
– Adam Clayton

“I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.”
– Agnes Macphail

“I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.”
– Agnes Macphail

“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.”
– Albert Einstein

“I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom…. The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.”
– Alexis De Tocqueville

“The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.”
– Alexis De Tocqueville

“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”
– Alice Paul

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
– Alice Walker

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
– Anatole France

“They [the poor] have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
– Anatole France

“A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.”
– Andrea Dworkin

“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.” 
– Andrew Jackson

“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself” 
– Andy Warhol Quotes

“Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.”
– Anon

“Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.”
– Aristotle

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” 
– Aristotle

“The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.”
– Arthur Hugh Clough

“I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.”
– Barack Obama

“Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.”
– Barbara Jordan

“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”
– Barry Goldwater

“Equality is no rule in Love’s grammar.”
– Beaumont And Fletcher

“In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.” 
– Bertrand Russell

“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”
– Bob Dylan

“I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.”
– Brigid Brophy

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
– C. S. Lewis

“No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”
– Carl Schurz

“As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.”
– Charles De Secondat

“The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress.”
– Charles Fourier

“Women have a lot to say about how to advance women’s rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.”
– Charlotte Bunch

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”
– Chief Joseph

“The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.” 
– Confucius Quotes

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5

Follow this site