Equality Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Men, History, Commodity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21

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• 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.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  War, Men, Weakness

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

  Mao Zedong

  Sex, Transformation, Process

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.297, China Books

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• 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

  Mary Daly

  Funny, Humor, Ku Klux Klan

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• Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

  Clive Barker

  Halloween, Book, Blood

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Jul 28, 2013

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

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Differences, Doe

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.208, Penguin

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• Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

  Charlize Theron

  Acceptance, Marriage Equality, Greater

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Aug 23, 2013

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• All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Heaven, Unity

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.34, e-artnow

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Rays, Boots

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.394

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• Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

  John Milton

  Splendor, Assuming, Reason

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Together, Pedestal, Spoons

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• In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

  Mary McCarthy

  Science, Literature, Matter

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

  Linda Grant

  Daughter, Mother, War

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• It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Progress, Facts

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.198

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• The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

  Henry Becque

  Desire, Defects, Superiors

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• The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Women, Mean, States

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

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Justice, Democracy

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah's address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, February 21, 1948.

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• Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.

  Robert Warshow

  Issues, Political, Reason

  Robert Warshow (1962). “The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

  Robert Casey

  Children, Mean, Parenting

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• Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Rights, Achievement, Principles

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Law, Special, Charter

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Order, Ideas, Heaven

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• The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

  Robert Toombs

  Independent, Government, Perfect

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3

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• Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Land, Iraq, America

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