Equality Quotes

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
Christine Gregoire

Work, Heart, Means

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
Warren Farrell

Nobody, Believes, Anyway

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
Agnes Macphail

Women, Absolute

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
Marlo Thomas

Marriage, Education, Time

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
Crystal Eastman

Love, Work, Women

All men are born equally free.
Salmon P. Chase

Men, Free, Born

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Lionel Trilling

Poor, Sense, Liberal

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
Patricia Ireland

Leadership, Women, Power

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
Patricia Ireland

Food, Paid, Cases

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
Tarja Halonen

Country, Concerned, Model

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
Mercy Otis Warren

Result, Democratic, Principles

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Jenny Shipley

Peace, Women, Point

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
Charlotte Bunch

Women, Learn, Rights

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
John Randolph

Love, Hate, Liberty

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Brigid Brophy

Men, Sex, Whole

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
Charles Fourier

Women, Progress, Social

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X

Freedom, Justice, Give

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nothing, Democracy, Liberty

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
Ellen DeGeneres

Kindness, Honesty, Compassion

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Freedom, Rather, Equal

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato

Government, Democracy, Full

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato

Nature, Justice, Injustice

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
Barack Obama

Time, Sorry, Children

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine

Happy, Justice, Religious

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

Sleep, Law, Rich

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