Equality Quotes And Sayings

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“Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.”
– Mary Douglas

“Virtue can only flourish among equals.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft

“As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.”
– Mason Cooley

“I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.”
– Maureen Reagan

“Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles… respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law… or, in a word justice.”
– Max Nordau

“Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.”
– Mercy Otis Warren

“Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.”
– Mike Honda

“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
– Milton Friedman

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.” 
– Mohandas Gandhi

“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” 
– Oscar Wilde

“I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.”
– Patricia Ireland

“Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.”
– Patricia Ireland

“There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.”
– Paul Burton

“Women’s battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.”
– Paula Nelson

“No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.”
– Pierre Joseph Proudhon

“Bliss is the same, in subject or in king.”
– Pope

“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.”
– Pope John Xxiii

“When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home.”
– Ramana Maharshi

“It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.”
– René Descartes

“God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.”
– Rex Stout

“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.” 
– Richard M. Nixon

“If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.” 
– Robert F. Kennedy

“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.”
– Robert G. Ingersoll

“There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.” 
– Robert Green Ingersoll

“I am leaving this legacy to all of you…to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.”
– Rosa Parks

“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.” 
– Rudyard Kipling

“All men are born equally free.”
– Salmon P. Chase

“Private religious speech can’t be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.”
– Samuel Alito

“Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.”
– Sathya Sai Baba

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