Equality Quotes

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono

Fool, Justice, Happen

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

Human, Attention, Public

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
Zachary Quinto

Society, Gay, Country

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
Jennifer Aniston

Humor, Kindness, Integrity

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.
Katy Perry

Important, Woman, Two

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
Charlize Theron

Marriage, Acceptance, Greater

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
Morris Dees

Education, Children, Focus

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Sonia Sotomayor

Education, Society, Until

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
Bryant H. McGill

Society, True, Understand

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.
Rick Warren

Government, Justice, Happen

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.
Allen West

Else, American, Spirit

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

Nothing, Problems, Direction

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'
Paul Ryan

Freedom, Live, Giving

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
Bernadette Devlin

Best, Freedom, Mother

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
Andrea Dworkin

Rich, Poor, Commitment

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
Herodotus

Good, Freedom, Alone

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
Martha Plimpton

American, Word, Anyone

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin

Freedom, Political, Lie

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
Joan Jett

Success, Women, Around

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Someone, Trying, Stand

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Everyone, Chance, Idea

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.
Andrea Dworkin

Peace, Freedom, Live

The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey

Death, Earth, Sole

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women, Men, True

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Mao Zedong

Society, Between, Whole

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