Equality Quotes
1425 quotes by 901 authors
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Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards…
— Florence King
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The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
— Edmund Barton
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became…
— John Berger
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The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make…
— Bhagat Singh
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
— Jesse Jackson
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Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to…
— Paul the Apostle
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
— E E Cummings
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic…
— Albert Einstein
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The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender…
— Savielly Tartakower
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Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally…
— T.H. White
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Equality is never given, it is taken.
— Jane Bryant Quinn
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The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without…
— Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
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It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and…
— Gene Robinson
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Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
— Plato
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Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves…
— Abraham Lincoln
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