Equality Quotes · Page 51

“Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.”

— Jodi Picoult

One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.

— Mike Quigley

“Why am I always the nerd at the party? I am in my thirties and by now I should at least know…

— Alissa Nutting

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

— Isaiah Berlin

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

— John Foster Dulles

“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future”

— Manal al-Sharif

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

— Sonia Sotomayor

My body seems to be having a party that I wasn't invited to. My body's very happy.

— Jason Bateman

“While all this goes on, the English remain staunch believers in equality. Equality is a notion the English have given to humanity.…

— George Mikes

OneAmerica worked over the course of a decade to bring the movement of immigrants and communities of color together with the movement…

— Pramila Jayapal

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Rigid, state-enforced sex equality is a Marxist policy, pursued to the outer limits in the old East Germany and now being adopted…

— Peter Hitchens

Even when I was dating a man I always said I'd never get married until marriage equality was passed in Australia. It…

— Jessica Origliasso

I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the…

— Fran Lebowitz

“Hunter found the edge of the sink to lean against; watching her mind hunt and wrestle the issue with a strategic defense…

— L.A. Banks

I'll get excited about gay equality when we have racial equality. I'd gladly give up my right to marry for my people…

— Anonymous

The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise…

— Rafael Sabatini

Addressing climate change globally promotes health, education and gender equality. Addressing it domestically secures U.K. jobs and sustainable clean economic growth; it…

— Barry Gardiner

“To call the belief in substantial human equality a superstition is to insult superstition. It might be unwarranted to believe in leprechauns,…

— Nick Land

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse…

— Trevanian

The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make…

— Ayn Rand

I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want…

— Wednesday Martin

As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we…

— Mary Robinson

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

— Ben Elton

“I don't believe in a country where it's more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands.”

— Brian Whitaker

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body…

— Billie Jean King

Its important to put a lot of years into your life, but equally important to put a lot of life into your…

— Anonymous

The genuine dictator makes people cry not only by his life, but also by his death.

— Ilkin Santak

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job…

— Kate Adie

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

— John Fowles

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

— Alice Paul

The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Conspiracy is unnecessary, when everyone thinks the same. ― George Draffan, via: Derrick Jensen - Endgame, Volume 1”

— George Draffan

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove…

— Leslie Ford

“Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

— James Madison

In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.

— Prince Philip

The more religious a state is, the more it resembles its religions example of hell on the earth.

— Ilkin Santak

When you're accustomed to privilege, parity and equity and equality may feel like oppression.

— Raphael Warnock