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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. -Samuel Johnson
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. -Samuel Johnson(Equality quotes)
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens. -David Cameron
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. -B. R. Ambedkar
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. -Honore de Balzac
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. -Friedrich August von Hayek
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. -B. R. Ambedkar
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. -Kofi Annan
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
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. -George Orwell
Gender equality quotesThe land is ours. It’s not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people… Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. -Robert Mugabe
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The land is ours. It’s not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people… Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. -Robert Mugabe
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
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. -Plato
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. -Erich Fromm
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
Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. -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
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
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. -Malcolm X
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. -Alexis de Tocqueville
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality. -John Randolph
The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress. -Charles Fourier
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. -Brigid Brophy
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women’s’ point of view. -Jenny Shipley
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
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
So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. -Bono
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying. -Mikhail Bakunin
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
The word ‘equality’ shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it’s not the American way. -Martha Plimpton
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
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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
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
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
Quotes about racial equalityAmerican society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. -Bryant H. McGill
Quotes about racial equality
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. -Bryant H. McGill
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
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. -Herodotus
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
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society. -Sonia Sotomayor
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
