Equality Quotes
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“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don’t even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.”
Quote by -Johnny Cash
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
Quote by -C.S. Lewis
"The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy"
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings."
Quote by -Simone Weil
"J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.
Quote by -Alice Walker
A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few;
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.
Quote by -Buddha
“The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“I was being measured against the expectation that any feminist had to be unattractive in a conventional sense—and then described in contrast to that stereotype. The subtext was: If you could get a man, why would you need equal pay?”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“You didn’t leave your party. Your party left you. Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“You didn’t leave your party. Your party left you. Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.
Quote by -Cate Blanchett
When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
Quote by -Mahatama Gandhi
"No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality."
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
"There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents."
Quote by -David Sedaris
“Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“labour, like commodities, may be said to have a real and a nominal price. Its real price may be said to consist in the quantity of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which are given for it; its nominal price, in the quantity of money. The labourer is rich or poor, is well or ill rewarded, in proportion to the real, not to the nominal price of his labour.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
Quote by -William Makepeace
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Quote by -Susan B. Anthony
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
Quote by -Susan B. Anthony
There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.
Quote by -Jordan Peterson
The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.
Quote by -Jordan Peterson