Famous Quotes
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
- Mark Pryor on Equality
- Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.
- Adrian Cronauer on Equality
- More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
- Kofi Annan on Equality
- Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
- Mary Douglas on Equality
- Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.
- Mike Rogers on Equality
- No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
- George Orwell on Equality
- No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah on Equality
- Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
- Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
- Warren Farrell on Equality
- Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson on Equality
- Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
- Elizabeth Moss on Equality
- OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
- Jennifer Aniston on Equality
- Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
- Vladimir Kramnik on Equality
- On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.
- Emanuel Celler on Equality
- On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton on Equality
- One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.
- Michelle Bachelet on Equality
- 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 on Equality
- Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.
- Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
- Zachary Quinto on Equality
- People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
- Linda Ellerbee on Equality
- Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.
- Mikhail Bakunin on Equality
- Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
- Samuel Alito on Equality
- Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
- Thomas Huxley on Equality
- Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.
- Pranab Mukherjee on Equality
- Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
- Mario Vargas Llosa on Equality
- Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
- Rosa Parks on Equality
- Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
- Alveda King on Equality
- Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
- Mary Douglas on Equality
- Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
- Gerry Adams on Equality
- Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
- Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
- Marc Morial on Equality
- Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.
- Johann Lamont on Equality
- Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
- Gerry Adams on Equality
- Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
- Honore De Balzac on Equality
- So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
- Socialism values equality more than liberty.
- Dennis Prager on Equality
- Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
- Patricia Ireland on Equality
- Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson on Equality
- Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
- Benjamin Tucker on Equality
- Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.
- Allen West on Equality
- The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.
- Michelle Bachelet on Equality
- The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.
- Robert Casey on Equality
- The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
- Herbert Croly on Equality
- The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
- Robert Toombs on Equality
- The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
- Margaret Thatcher on Equality
- The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.
- Lyman Trumbull on Equality
- The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.
- The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
- Iris Murdoch on Equality
- The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
- Shirley Chisholm on Equality
- The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
- Hjalmar Branting on Equality
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