Equality Quotes

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir

Successful, Job, Woman

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.
King Hussein I

Work, Future, Islam

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
Kurt Vonnegut

Everyone, Year, Equal

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson

Women, Great, Men

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Mason Cooley

Struggling, Number, Increases

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel Johnson

Happy, Rather, State

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

Racism, Treat, Order

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Shirley Chisholm

Girl, Emotional, Doctor

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Women, Men, Struggle

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol

Democracy, Conditions, Guarantee

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica Jong

Women, History, Group

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Barbara Jordan

Power, Black, Brain

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

Yourself, Treat, Treated

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
Franz Boas

Present, Mankind, Third

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Iris Murdoch

Down, Everyone, Cry

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Respect, Envy, Passion

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan

Women, Countries, Understood

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
Tom Robbins

Different, Similarly, Regarding

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

Women, Two, Personal

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
Samuel Alito

Against, Speech, Religious

Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue, Among, Equals

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Linda Ellerbee

Pretty, Alike, Definition

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
Mary Douglas

Real, Between, Difficult

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

Family, Women, Whole

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
Kevin Kelly

Possible, Equally, Futures

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