Equality Quotes

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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What whites have rarely had to think aboutâ€”because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort… — Tim Wise
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. — Rosa Parks
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living… — Trevanian
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red. — Clive Barker
A world with one month is a world of equality. — Alan Lightman
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more… — Charlotte Bronte
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position,… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be… — Jane Austen
Equal laws protecting equal rightsâ€¦the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country. — James Madison
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm. — Jostein Gaarder
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my… — Theodore Roosevelt
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. — Dr. Seuss
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that… — Frantz Fanon
Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from… — Rebecca Solnit
What we need is equality without conformity. — Kim Stanley Robinson
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle

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