Equality Quotes

"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable." Anonymous Quotes "Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven. Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all!" Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over. Bella Abzug Quotes The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. Bella Abzug Quotes I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee... Bella Abzug Quotes The true republic — men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. Susan B. Anthony Quotes One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one. Susan B. Anthony Quotes (An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge of illegal voting, at the presidential election in Nov. 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of election by whom her vote was received) Susan B. Anthony Quotes We've got a generation now who were born with semi equality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle. Erma Bombeck Quotes “Come, tell me, hast thou not seen a play acted in which kings, emperors, pontiffs, knights, ladies, and divers other personages were introduced? One plays the villain, another the knave, this one the merchant, that the soldier, one the sharp-witted fool, another the foolish lover; and when the play is over, and they have put off the dresses they wore in it, all the actors become equal." "Yes, I have seen that," said Sancho. "Well then," said Don Quixote, "the same thing happens in the comedy and life of this world, where some play emperors, others popes, and, in short, all the characters that can be brought into a play; but when it is over, that is to say when life ends, death strips them all of the garments that distinguish one from the other, and all are equal in the grave." "A fine comparison!" said Sancho; "though not so new but that I have heard it many and many a time, as well as that other one of the game of chess; how, so long as the game lasts, each piece has its own particular office, and when the game is finished they are all mixed, jumbled up and shaken together, and stowed away in the bag, which is much like ending life in the grave." Miguel de Cervantes Quotes It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end. Lydia Maria Child Quotes "The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'" Shirley Chisholm Quotes "Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land." Grover Cleveland Quotes There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. Friedrich A. Hayek Quotes Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? Lillian Hellman Quotes We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves. Langston Hughes Quotes "If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim." Robert Francis Kennedy Quotes "I have a dream that one day…the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes "I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!" Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality. You have, in fact, alienated yourself. Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Abraham Lincoln Quotes "To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man." Golda Meir Quotes "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren? Bishop Beilby Porteus Quotes "Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's. The drive for equality of opportunity would also require the abolition of the family since different parents have unequal abilities; it would require the communal rearing of children. The State would have to nationalize all babies and raise them in State nurseries under 'equal' conditions. But even here conditions cannot be the same, because different State officials will themselves have different abilities and personalities. And equality can never be achieved because of necessary differences of location." Murray N. Rothbard Quotes 'Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What "fairness" means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others. Thomas Sowell Quotes 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 Quotes All the people like us are We, And everyone else is They. Rudyard Kipling Quotes While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland, 1917 Quotes Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. James Russell Lowell, "Democracy Add Quotes There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future. Shri Haidakhan Babaji Quotes The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same. Martin H. Fischer Quotes Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear. Isa Upanishad Quotes Death and dice level all distinction. Samuel Foote Quotes There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us. Edward Wallis Hoch Quotes The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes. Michel de Montaigne, translated Quotes It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. René Descartes Quotes Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish. Albert Einstein Quotes Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. Malcolm X Quotes As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. Joseph Farrell Quotes We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat. Bernard M. Baruch Quotes 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 grave. John James Ingalls Quotes An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. Ignazio Silone Quotes Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. Italian Proverb Quotes Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. Yiddish Proverb Quotes In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. Bertrand Russell Quotes I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill Quotes The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them. Thomas Jefferson Quotes I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. Maureen Reagan Quotes The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man. Tennesse Claflin Quotes When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don't know about you, but I can't wait that long. Lya Sorano Quotes I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. Jane Addams Quotes The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society. John Dewey Quotes Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. Irving Kristol Quotes In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. Harry A. Blackmun Quotes This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism. Gloria Steinem Quotes The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed. G. K. Chesterton Quotes When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. Confucius Quotes The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. Eugene Debs Quotes The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C. S. Lewis Quotes Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me. Anna Quindlen Quotes The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France Quotes Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. Louis K. Anspacher Quotes If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. Aristotle Quotes There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Honoré de Balzac Quotes We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. Phillips Brooks Quotes Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. Grover Cleveland Quotes If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism. Marquis de Sade Quotes Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. Rene Descartes Quotes Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. John Donne Quotes A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready. Lawrence Downs Quotes All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. Bob Dylan Quotes E=mc² (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by L/c². Albert Einstein Quotes Before God we are equally wise--and equally foolish. Albert Einstein Quotes If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. Albert Einstein Quotes Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein Quotes What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. James T. Farell Quotes America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. James T. Farrell Quotes The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses. John Martin Fischer Quotes The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France Quotes To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. Benjamin Franklin Quotes The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. Edward Gibbon Quotes I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Kahlil Gibran Quotes For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it. Malcom Gladwell Quotes All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism. B. J. Gupta Quotes A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Robert Hall Quotes Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. Jane Harrison Quotes There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude. Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defence be the_real_object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? Patrick Henry Quotes An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. William James Quotes We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar Thomas Jefferson Quotes We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson Quotes The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. Dr. Samuel Johnson Quotes We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts. John Junor Quotes It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. Helen Adams Keller Quotes Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession. Henry Alfred Kissinger Quotes All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest--never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. Ann Landers Quotes All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. T. E. Lawrence Quotes Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln Quotes It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time. Charles Augustus Lindbergh Quotes A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach. Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. Françoise d'Aubigné Maintenon Quotes If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness. Sarah McLachlan Quotes In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Quotes A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other. George Jean Nathan Quotes I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous--a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. Malcolm X Quotes Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Quotes That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. Aldous Huxley Quotes If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. Aristotle Quotes The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. Aristotle Quotes 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 it only by the protection of the law. Charles de Montesquieu Quotes The love of democracy is that of equality. Charles de Montesquieu Quotes All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell Quotes Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. Hannah Arendt Quotes It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. Marquis de Vauvenargues Quotes As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. Publilius Syrus Quotes We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. US Declaration of Independence Quotes Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. Voltaire Quotes