Equal Quote by Jan Smuts

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that…

— Anonymous

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an…

— Andrew Johnson

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have…

— Amy Wax

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

— Kirsten Powers

Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just…

— Marianne Williamson

I think South Africa would be in a lot worse position had you not had visionaries like the Mandelas or the Oliver Tambos or…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender, I might…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Suffrage didn’t mean equal opportunity.”

— Annalee Newitz

Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.

— Ted Nugent

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like…

— Maya Angelou