Political Equality Quotes

• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945) See Bierce 141

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Office, Favors

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Freedom, Giving Up

  Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784

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• To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Respect, Equality, Self

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Reality, Thinking, Political

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• To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self, Law, Punishment

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Political, Liberty, Minutes

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.305, e-artnow

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• You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty.

  Herbert Hoover

  Opportunity, Government, Roots

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President”

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• Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life, Rights, Women In Politics

  Address to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, delivered 12 March 2010, United Nations, New York

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• I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Race, White

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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

  Steven Pinker

  Commitment, Equality, People

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• It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Religious, Educational, Character

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• What would it mean if we lived in a world in which no one held out for the possibility of substantial political equality, or for a full cessation of colonial practices - if no one held out for those things because they were impossible?

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Practice, Political

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

  Camille Paglia

  Fate, Political, Feminism

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.28, Canongate Books

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• ...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation of the cherished value of political equality. At the same time, it does not protect the interests of small states or racial minorities, nor does it serve as a bastion of federalism. Instead the Electoral College distorts the presidential campaign so that candidates ignore most small states - and many large ones - and pay little attention to minorities.

  George C. Edwards III

  College, Two, Presidential

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• Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.

  John Bonifaz

  Fighting, Play, Political

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• Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.

  Estelle Freedman

  Men, Political, Understanding

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