Equality Quotes

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To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and… — Herbert Read
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. — Tom Robbins
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. — Will Rogers
If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages,… — Christina Romer
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years… — Marco Rubio
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he… — Bertrand Russell
The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding… — Paul Ryan
I'm not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I'm making the point that we are… — Sheryl Sandberg
The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality… — Dan Savage
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. — Carl Schurz
As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of… — Jill Scott
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. — Peter Singer
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. — Zadie Smith
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. — Sonia Sotomayor
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that,… — Ben Stein
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. — Gloria Steinem

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