Equality Quotes
1425 quotes by 901 authors
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Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.
— Erich Fromm
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails…
— Will Durant
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Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability…
— Will Durant
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If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death…
— Immanuel Kant
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We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
— William Graham Sumner
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
— Malcolm X
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As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people…
— David Horowitz
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I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments-but if the…
— Rufus King
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Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of…
— E. Cobham Brewer
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Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.
— William Butler Yeats
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He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a…
— Amy Plum
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I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside…
— Clarence Page
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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to…
— Susan Sontag
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In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice…
— Eugene Ionesco
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The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite…
— Lena Dunham
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One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she…
— Shirley Chisholm
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I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take…
— Sarah Moore Grimke
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This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether such marriages are…
— Barbara Brandriff Crabb
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