Community Quote by Barbara Gittings

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

— Thaddeus Stevens

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics,…

— A. Philip Randolph

Equality means allowing people to achieve their full potential - for themselves and for their country.

— Penny Mordaunt

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

— Anonymous

“Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a number…

— Victor Hugo

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

— James F. Cooper

Equality should be a thing we don't even have to talk about anymore.

— Hilary Knight

“Equality has a built-in revolutionary force lacking in such ideas as justice or liberty. For once the ideal of equality becomes uppermost, it can…

— Robert Nisbet

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

— Michael Bloomberg

Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into…

— James Kirke Paulding

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality…

— George Bernard Shaw