Equality Quote by Gilbert King

We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

“Equality can be ensured only by curtailing the freedoms of those who are better off. Guaranteeing that every individual will be free to do…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in…

— Anonymous

“Now I know of only two methods of establishing equality in the political world; every citizen must be put in possession of his rights,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Equality has a built-in revolutionary force lacking in such ideas as justice or liberty. For once the ideal of equality becomes uppermost, it can…

— Robert Nisbet

“There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.”

— Anthony Trollope

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

— Barbara Gittings

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

— Andy Rooney

“But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the sanction and…

— Frédéric Bastiat

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

— Honore de Balzac

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men,…

— Michel de Montaigne