Equality 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Character, Live, Children

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

God, Wise, Before

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Together, Dream, Able

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom, Until, Summer

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

Men, Liberty, Nation

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Power, Same

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone, Except, Reporters

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

Best, Government, Democracy

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Learn, Poverty

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan

Die, Talk, Common

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers

True, Learned, Others

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
W. C. Fields

Hate, Free, Prejudices

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama

Best, Mistakes, Country

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater

Time, Liberty, Creative

In America everybody is of the 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

Time, Men, America

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 Kennedy

Change, Live, Him

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
Rosa Parks

Children, Racism, Shall

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac

Power, May, Fact

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson

Wisdom, Perfect, System

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 Schurz

Cannot, Dangerous, Rights

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher

Women, Battle, Rights

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Woman, Same, She

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
David Allan Coe

Men, Place, Themselves

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Frances Wright

Liberty, Soul, Fact

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