Equality Quotes
Equality is a situation in which men and women, people of different races and religions are all treated fairly and have the same opportunities. Equality will make you realize that just because someone has a different race or religion, does not mean they should be treated as an inferior being.
In this article, you will find the best quotes on equality that will help you embrace people and their differences by treating everyone you meet equally.
60 Best Quotes & Sayings About Equality
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. -Frances Wright
These men ask for just the same thing: fairness, and fairness only. This is, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. -Abraham Lincoln
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges._H. L. Mencken
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
“Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”― Joss Whedon
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. -Carl Shurz
“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another.” – Thomas Paine
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. -Tom Robbins
“When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a class, not a title.” – Criss Jami
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. -Franz Boas
The word ‘equality’ shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it’s not the American way. -Martha Plimpton
“We are all equal in the fact that we are all different.” – C. Joybell C.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. -Alice Paul
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. -Mary McCarthy
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.” – Jane Goodall
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions. -Slobodan Milosevic
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. – Adrian Cronauer
“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 inferior, except for his own demerit.”― Theodore Roosevelt
Before God, we are all equally wise, and equally foolish.__Albert Einstein
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 _Thomas Jefferson
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.__Aristotle
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.–Aristotle
The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors._Henry Becque
Men are born equal but they are also born different.__Erich Fromm
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”― Timothy Leary
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”― Gloria Steinem
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”― Winston S. Churchill
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. -Barbara Jordan
“I believe in equality for everyone.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. -Toni Morrison
“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.” – David Foster
Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits. -Mike Honda
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It’s about something greater. It’s about acceptance. -Charlize Theron
“Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” – Shane Koyczan
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens. -David Cameron
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.__Marlo Thomas
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
_Arthur Ashe
_Arthur Ashe
Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.__Henri Frederic Amiel
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.__Alan Moore
If all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized._Thomas Hobbes
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents._Viscount Samuel
Equality implies individuality. -Trey Anastasio
“Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges.” – Suzy Kassem
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society. -Sonia Sotomayor
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk. -Peggy Noonan
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”― Milton Friedman
Six feet of earth make all men equal.__Proverb
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.__George Orwell
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free. _Voltaire
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.__William Faulkner
“A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.”
― Jostein Gaarder
― Jostein Gaarder
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.__Bob Dylan
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.__Simone Weil
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.
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
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.__Samuel Johnson
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
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.__St. Thomas Aquinas
“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the color of the skin…”― Malcolm X
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.__Socrates