Equality Quotes · Page 36

I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness.

— Joel Madden

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

— Randall Jarrell

We must never forget the atrocities of slavery as we continue to work towards equality.

— Al N. Green

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

— Clay Shirky

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

— Antonio Guterres

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,...

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

— Robert Toombs

There's nothing more mainstream than equal pay for equal work. I mean, it's completely obvious that's what feminism should be for, and…

— Joanna Coles

Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight…

— Edmund White

There are broad freedoms in Israel. In fact, Israel's Declaration of Independence grants all Israel's inhabitants equality of social and political rights…

— Lee Zeldin

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If…

— Ben Stein

“Now it’s up to all of us, women and men alike, to make the next big push toward equality between men and…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice,…

— Carol Gilligan

If someone invites you to his religion, do not look down on him, on the contrary, you should thank him; he shares…

— Ilkin Santak

“The beauty of the infantry is its ability to truly teach tolerance. At the lowest level, when it is simply a matter…

— Adam Fenner

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his…

— Immanuel Kant

“Jealousy is the foundation of equality, but not of liberty ; putting man constantly on his guard against the encroachments of his…

— Ernest Renan

We need to be able to guarantee the safety of all artists and activists for human rights so that it no longer…

— Deeyah Khan

“We must choose to use our voice to say that equality should be a reality. For ALL people. We may not all…

— Trudy Bourgeois

The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from…

— Ban Ki-moon

“What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge?…

— David Mitchell

“Do not abandon ship: Some countries of the world are like people fighting on a large boat. In the middle of their…

— Julie A. Barnes

Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than…

— Leora Tanenbaum

The value of one moment of ones pleasure cannot be placed in the whole history of statehood.

— Ilkin Santak

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

— Benjamin Tucker

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

— John Oliver Killens

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

— Susan B. Anthony

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

— Lobsang Tenzin

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

— Earl Warren

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.”

— Honoré de Balzac

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

— D. H. Lawrence

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

— J. B. Priestley

“The saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged.”

— Janelle Gray

The ideals of liberty and equality are gain through small steps, not huge leaps.

— JOHNREYES

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

— Slobodan Milosević

Equality has long been the end goal of historically oppressed populations in the United States.

— Ritchie Torres

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

— Plato

Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation.

— Pierre Poilievre

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

— Teresa Heinz