Equality Quotes · Page 46

Treating people equally means everyone gets the same pair of shoes. Treating them equitably means those shoes fit.

— Anonymous

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

— Megawati Sukarnoputri

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

— Ruth Harrison

Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.

— Deborah Tannen

I stand for humanity, no creeds or religion, I defend human rights and will continue to do till the day that I…

— Jeremy Limn

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

— Mason Cooley

“Male and female are complementary states, and there is a healthy natural tension between them.”

— Heather E. Heying

I feel like everyone's equal, I never thought I was better than anybody.

— Cody Garbrandt

What I worry about is, if you are on the side of feeling it's disrespectful to kneel during the anthem, that somehow…

— Abby Huntsman

Are the entire people equal before the god? I do not know. But all gods are equal before the human being, especially…

— Ilkin Santak

It was a national disgrace to lose the ERA, but of course we will start, and have done so, all over again.…

— Marguerite Rawalt

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will…

— Anonymous

We are a society that really worked to leave our differences behind, and value equality. All these things actually make a community…

— Andy Muschietti

Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of…

— Ilkin Santak

“We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water…

— Suzy Kassem

We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a…

— Beyonce Knowles

I don't see how any African-American, with any inkling of history, can say that you don't have the right to live your…

— Michael Irvin

“With reciprocity all things do not need to be equal in order for acceptance and mutuality to thrive. If equality is evoked…

— bell hooks

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with…

— James F. Cooper

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman…

— Henry Hazlitt

The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The…

— Dana Boente

“Equality in mutual relations with the solidarity arising from it, this is the most powerful weapon of the animal world in the…

— Peter Kropotkin

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important…

— Charles Evans Hughes

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity…

— Wendell Berry

“People fight foe equality but to the first chance for domination.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.

— Michael Kimmel

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

— Jane Swisshelm

Victims of crime deserve equal constitutional rights - the same rights as defendants. No more, no less.

— Chris Sununu

“I stand for peace, choice, and a life of dignity for all humankind - regardless of skin color, gender, or religion.”

— Elena Levon

“Equality was thus conceived in terms of the relative position of individuals, the rules governing their interactions,”

— Pierre Rosanvallon

“She is not my equal; she is my better. She is my sticky little leaf.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“A job should be given to those who deserve it, not those who demand it.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

— Abraham Lincoln

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

— Jesse Jackson

Talking about freedom in the country where people are afraid of losing their jobs is absurdity.

— Ilkin Santak

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

— Honore de Balzac

“Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.”

— Lois Lowry

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

— Yuna

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

— Confucius