Equality Quotations | Page 6

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs. It is precisely because the U.N. is the chief guardian of both these sacrosanct principles that it alone is allowed to approve derogations from them.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

The Human Rights Campaign has been proud to be part of the enormous progress made on the road to equality over the last 25 years, ... While we have miles to go, the national dinner gave us an opportunity to look at the distance we've crossed.

The Church just has not been able to cope with the demands for fairness and equality from women, so they're very angry.

The Cold War mentality must be abandoned once and for all, ... And a new security concept based on mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and cooperation should be established.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

HOW CAN WE EFFECT CHANGE IN THE WORLD WHEN ONLY HALF OF IT IS INVITED OR FEEL WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONVERSATION?

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.

Nothing is so unequal as equality.

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.

Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

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.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?

No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

All men are born equally free.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy ...

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

I might not be the same, but that's not important/No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it

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.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.

Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

Onions can make ev'n Heirs and Widows weep

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Four score and seven years ago, our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.

All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.