100 Top Equality Quotes to Explore and Share | quotes about equality

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

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

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

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 quotes)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

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. -James M. Barrie

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

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 believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life. -Jimmy Carter

equality quotes- I don’t believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it’s really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase. -Olivia Thirlby

Socialism values equality more than liberty. -Dennis Prager

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality – an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. -Friedrich August von Hayek

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

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. -Arthur Henderson

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. -Kim Campbell

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. -Paul Dirac

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. -Adam Clayton

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves. -Maximilien Robespierre

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. -Eric Liu

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. -Jeane Kirkpatrick

Republicans many times can’t get the words ‘equality of opportunity’ out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way. -Jack Kemp

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. -Alveda King

Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. -Mario Vargas Llosa

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. -Arthur Ashe

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference. -Marc Morial

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. -Theodore Bikel

Each country has a soul, and France’s soul is equality. -Francois Hollande

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman’s right to choose. I believe in marriage equality. -Andrew Cuomo

Marriage equality changed life for people. -Andrew Cuomo

For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class to secure opportunity and equality. -Nancy Pelosi

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation’s pockets of poverty. -Jack Kemp

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. -Vidal Sassoon

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength. -Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life. -Harry Bridges

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone. -Dan Savage

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.- Thomas Mann

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. -Robert Bork

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can’t be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who’s is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn’t. -Rosie O’Donnell

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The sole equality on earth is death. -Philip James Bailey

What’s really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don’t even really understand that equality hasn’t happened with the pay force. -Bell Hooks

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

Mormons… are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. -Mary Douglas

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. -Mary Douglas

Educational equality doesn’t guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and ‘leaky pipelines’ that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace. -Michelle Bachelet

U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women’s empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women’s empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges. -Michelle Bachelet

In 1965, I marched for equality. -Alphonso Jackson

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies. -Michelle Bachelet

One of the factors a country’s economy depends on is human capital. If you don’t provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women’s empowerment bring huge economic benefits. -Michelle Bachelet

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality. -Zachary Quinto

I’m an activist for gay marriage equality and children’s rights. I’m the face of Share Our Strength. -Sandra Lee

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war. -Charles de Secondat