Equality Quotes And Sayings

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“Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.”
– Crystal Eastman

“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.”
– David Allan Coe

“We’ve got to take back the ideal of justice, we’ve got to take back this principle of human dignity, we’ve got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we’ve got to say: look, we’re all in this together. We are human beings.’
– David Kaczynski

“No one enjoys being equal.”
– David Mamet

“Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?”
– Dorothy Thompson

“Don’t give up! I believe in you all. A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
– Dr. Seuss

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”
– Elizabeth Cady

“Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.”
– Elizabeth Gaskell

“Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict.”
– Elizabeth Wilson

“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
– Erica Jong

“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.”
– Erich Fromm

“Men are born equal but they are also born different.”
– Erich Fromm

“There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher‘s ability to do sums, rather than the village bum’s ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough — the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.”
– Floyd Dell

“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”
– Frances Wright

“There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.”
– Françoise D’Aubigné Maintenon

“If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.”
– Franz Boas

“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
– Friedrich August

“Equality begins with economic empowerment.”
– George H.W. Bush

“We’ve chosen the path to equality, don’t let them turn us around.”
– Geraldine Ferraro

“We are not all equal, nor can we be so.”
– Goethe.    

“To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.” 
– Golda Meir

“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”
– Harry A. Blackmun

“Liberty, equality bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.”
– Henri Frédéric Amiel

“It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.”
– Herodotus

“A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.”
– Hjalmar Branting

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
– Honore De Balzac

“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”
– Iris Murdoch

“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.” 
– Irving Kristol

“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants’ hall.”
– J. M. Barrie

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