Famous Quotes
- The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.
- Rosie O'Donnell on Equality
- The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
- Charles Fourier on Equality
- The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
- Morris Dees on Equality
- The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
- Tarja Halonen on Equality
- The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity it is service.
- Arthur Hugh Clough on Equality
- The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Equality
- The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.
- Laura Chinchilla on Equality
- The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
- Charles Rangel on Equality
- The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
- Robert Mugabe on Equality
- The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France on Equality
- The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
- Robert Reich on Equality
- The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on Equality
- The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.
- Michael D. Higgins on Equality
- The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.
- Leonard Boswell on Equality
- The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
- The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Equality
- The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
- Evo Morales on Equality
- The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.
- Johanna Siguroardottir on Equality
- The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.
- Carolyn Maloney on Equality
- The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
- Dan Savage on Equality
- The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences a country that respects all, regardless of their differences a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.
- Paul Martin on Equality
- The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'
- The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France on Equality
- The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
- Robert Bork on Equality
- The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
- Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned on Equality
- The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
- Leland Stanford on Equality
- The sole equality on earth is death.
- Philip James Bailey on Equality
- The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Equality
- The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Equality
- The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
- Pope John XXIII on Equality
- The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
- Gerry Adams on Equality
- The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
- James Bovard on Equality
- The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
- Andrew Jackson on Equality
- The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
- Martha Plimpton on Equality
- The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
- Betty Buckley on Equality
- The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
- Kurt Vonnegut on Equality
- Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.
- Laurence Tribe on Equality
- There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
- Woodrow Wilson on Equality
- There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
- Ken Livingstone on Equality
- There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
- Harry Bridges on Equality
- There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.
- Scott Weiland on Equality
- There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.
- Ellen Pompeo on Equality
- These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
- Abraham Lincoln on Equality
- Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
- Anna Howard Shaw on Equality
- To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
- Golda Meir on Equality
- To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
- Herbert Read on Equality
- U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.
- Michelle Bachelet on Equality
- Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
- Adam Clayton on Equality
- Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.
- Stephen Lewis on Equality
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