Famous Quotes
- I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.
- Rick Warren on 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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Equality
- 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. on Equality
- I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on Equality
- I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.
- Geoff Hoon on Equality
- 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 on Equality
- I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
- B. R. Ambedkar on Equality
- I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
- Alice Paul on Equality
- I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
- Brigid Brophy on Equality
- I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Equality
- I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
- Paul Dirac on Equality
- I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.
- Connie Chung on Equality
- I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
- Agnes Macphail on Equality
- I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
- Patricia Ireland on Equality
- I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
- Christine Gregoire on Equality
- I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
- Maureen Reagan on Equality
- I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.
- Hideki Tojo on Equality
- I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
- Sandra Lee on Equality
- I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.
- Sean Connery on Equality
- 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 on Equality
- 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.
- If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
- If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
- Franz Boas on Equality
- In 1965, I marched for equality.
- Alphonso Jackson on Equality
- In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
- Catharine MacKinnon on Equality
- In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
- Thomas Malthus on Equality
- 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 on Equality
- In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.
- Paul Martin on Equality
- In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
- Carol Bellamy on Equality
- In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
- Bianca Jagger on Equality
- 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 on Equality
- In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
- Mary McCarthy on Equality
- 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 on Equality
- In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
- In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
- Raoul Vaneigem on Equality
- Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
- B. R. Ambedkar on Equality
- Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
- Mary Douglas on Equality
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
- Bashar Al-Assad on Equality
- It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
- Zachary Quinto on Equality
- It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
- Thomas Mann on Equality
- 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 on Equality
- It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
- It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
- It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
- Francis Wright on Equality
- It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.
- Michael Kinsley on Equality
- Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Equality
- Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
- Erich Fromm on Equality
- Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
- Imelda Staunton on Equality
- Marriage equality changed life for people.
- Andrew Cuomo on Equality
- Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
- Charlize Theron on Equality
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