Equality Quotes And Sayings

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“The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.”
– James F. Cooper

“Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women‘s’ point of view.”
– Jenny Shipley

“Love either finds equality or makes it.”
– John Dryden

“There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It’s very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.” 
– John F. Kennedy

“Let’s assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.”
– John Fischer

“If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.”
– John Hope

“In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.” 
– John James Ingalls

“I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.”
– John Randolph

“Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.”
– Joy Harjo

“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“All imaginable futures are not equally possible.”
– Kevin Kelly

“More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development.” 
– Kofi Annan

“People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.”
– Leo Xiii

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”
– Leviticus 19:18

“No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It’s like arguing about earthquakes.”
– Lillian Hellman

“People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.” 
– Linda Ellerbee

“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”
– Lionel Trilling

“Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.” 
– Malcolm X

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.”
– Malcolm X

“The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
– Marianne Williamson

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
– Mark Twain

“In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.”
– Marlo Thomas

“One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.”
– Marlo Thomas

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” 
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” 
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A woman’s asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person’s demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.”
– Mary Daly

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