Equality Quotes

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

Kofi Annan

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

William Makepeace Thackeray

LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

William Shakespeare

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

Lyman Trumbull

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

John Hope

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

James Fenimore Cooper

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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

Agnes Macphail

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

Samuel Alito

Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Frances Wright

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

Linda Ellerbee

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

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

Equality implies individuality.

Trey Anastasio

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

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

Bob Dylan

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Theodore Roosevelt

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Alexis de Tocqueville