Equality Quotes

"I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality"

"The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress"

"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"

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"

"As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance"

"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes"

"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality"

"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"

"The battle for women's rights has been largely won"

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact"

"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up"

"Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view"

"Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech"

"Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps"

"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership"

"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die"

"Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits"

"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality"

"Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently"

"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power"

"I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals"

"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"

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl"

"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"

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity"

"The cry of equality pulls everyone down"

"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"

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally"

"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They"

"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"