We are accountable to each other; having an equitable Minnesota benefits everyone, not just the disenfranchised.

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.

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

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.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

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?

“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.”

“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

“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.”

“The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

“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.”

“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.”

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

"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."

"There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents."

"No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."

"The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality."

"You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you."

"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."

"The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy"

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

“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.”