Famous Quotes About - equality

  • A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. ... Sidonie Gabrielle Colette {view}
  • All imaginable futures are not equally possible. ... Kevin Kelly {view}
  • All men are born equally free. ... Salmon P. Chase {view}
  • All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. ... David Allan Coe {view}
  • All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. ... Rudyard Kipling {view}
  • All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. ... Bob Dylan {view}
  • As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. ... Mason Cooley {view}
  • Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. ... Khalil Gibran {view}
  • Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ... Irving Kristol {view}
  • Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition. ... Mercy Otis Warren {view}
  • Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. ... Barbara Jordan {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view. ... Jenny Shipley {view}
  • Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. ... Tom Robbins {view}
  • Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. ... Frances Wright {view}
  • Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. ... Honore de Balzac {view}
  • 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. ... Barry Goldwater {view}
  • 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. ... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • 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. ... Carl Schurz {view}
  • I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality. ... John Randolph {view}
  • I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally. ... W. C. Fields {view}
  • I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ... Mahatma Gandhi {view}
  • 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. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. {view}
  • I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. {view}
  • I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions. ... Barack Obama {view}
  • I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. ... Agnes Macphail {view}
  • I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership. ... Patricia Ireland {view}
  • 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 Kennedy {view}
  • If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ... Aristotle {view}
  • If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. ... Franz Boas {view}
  • In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. ... Harry A. Blackmun {view}
  • In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time. ... Marlo Thomas {view}
  • It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. ... Samuel Johnson {view}
  • More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ... Kofi Annan {view}
  • Nobody really believes in equality anyway. ... Warren Farrell {view}
  • One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. ... Marlo Thomas {view}
  • People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ... Linda Ellerbee {view}