Society, Justice & Peace: Equality Quotes

Discover thoughtful quotes on equality that illuminate dignity, fairness, and inclusion across society. These voices from leaders, writers, and changemakers invite reflection on how equal rights, opportunity, and respect strengthen communities and resolve conflict. Use these insights to spark conversation, challenge bias, and support just policies that value every person. Whether you seek inspiration for advocacy, study, or everyday life, these words offer balanced perspective and hopeful direction toward a more peaceful and equitable world.

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"A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom"

Jerry Hall, Model

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"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

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"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

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"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts"

Camille Paglia, Author

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"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

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"Fascism is capitalism in decay"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

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"Democracy is the road to socialism"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

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"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

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"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman"

Virginia Woolf, Author

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"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"The goal of socialism is communism"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

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"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, Novelist

"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor"

James A. Baldwin, Author

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"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world"

Virginia Woolf, Author

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"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat"

Rebecca West, Author

"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics"

Plutarch, Philosopher

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences"

Audre Lorde, Poet

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"All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes"

Marilyn French, Author

"We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote"

Alice Paul, Activist

"The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!"

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Economist

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender"

Alice Walker, Author

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"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both"

Louis D. Brandeis, Judge

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"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"

Timothy Leary, Educator

"The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

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"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

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"Our true nationality is mankind"

H.G. Wells, Author

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"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

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"Women are responsible for creating their own roles"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many"

Maggie Kuhn, Activist

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