Equality Quotes

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It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. — Florence King
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. — Francis Picabia
The love of democracy is that of equality. — Baron de Montesquieu
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover… — Baron de Montesquieu
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the… — John James Ingalls
We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward… — Alex Salmond
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality. — Pierre de Coubertin
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. — Ignazio Silone
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it. — Ninon de L'Enclos
Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words! — Giuseppe Mazzini
Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the… — Unknown Author
Men are born equal but they are also born different. — Erich Fromm
The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work. — Jimmy Carter
Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks — William Makepeace Thackeray
For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. — Hannah Arendt

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