Equality Quotes
1425 quotes by 901 authors
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
— Aldous Huxley
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Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
— Thomas Huxley
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with…
— Joan Jett
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No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native…
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
— Pope John XXIII
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of…
— Samuel Johnson
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
— Samuel Johnson
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring…
— Samuel Johnson
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After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its…
— Tim Johnson
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
— Erica Jong
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
— Barbara Jordan
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The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
— Chief Joseph
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Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality…
— Jack Kemp
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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
— John F. Kennedy
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