Equality Quotes

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  I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Race, People, Humanity

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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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• The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Race, Differences

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• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Egalitarianism, Deep Thought

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

  Malcolm X

  Knowledge, Thinking, African American

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• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  Frances Wright

  Inspirational, Community, Soul

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.25

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

  Aristotle

  Witty, Men, Law

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• 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.

  Sophia Loren

  Men, Feet, Ribs

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• Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Rights, Special

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• I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspiring, Leadership, Freedom

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• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Friendship, Happy

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• We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

  Bernard Baruch

  Wisdom, Ships, Boat

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• Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Family, Inspiring, Women

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• 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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• Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Mean, Evil People, Institutions

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• 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.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Alaska, Race

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.101, Modern Library

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• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Fairness, Asks

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.57, Wildside Press LLC

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  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

  Patriotic, Differences, Democracies Have

  "Discours prononcé à l'assemblée constituante le 12 Septembre 1848 sur la question du droit au travail". Oeuvres complètes, Volume IX, p. 546, 1866.

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Society, Politics

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33

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  A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Degrees, Politics

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• Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Women, History, Equal

  2017 speech at the University of Michigan, www.chicagotribune.com. January 30, 2017.

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• No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Respect, Freedom, Men

  Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).

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• 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.

  Maureen Reagan

  Men, Office, Politics

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