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Definition of Equality
Equality

The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights.

Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.

Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface.

Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does.

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Equality Quotations

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

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.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson

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

Equality Translations

equality in Afrikaans is gelykheid
equality in Dutch is gelijkheid, pariteit
equality in German is Gleichheit
equality in Italian is uquaglianza
equality in Norwegian is likestilling, likhet
equality in Portuguese is igualdade
equality in Spanish is igualdad, paridad


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