Definition of Equality

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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell

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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