280 Quotes Regarding Equality


I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
Tom Robbins

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Toni Morrison

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
Samuel Alito

Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Linda Ellerbee

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
Mary Douglas

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

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
Kevin Kelly

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
Warren Farrell

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
Agnes Macphail

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
Marlo Thomas

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
Christine Gregoire

All men are born equally free.
Salmon P. Chase

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
Patricia Ireland

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
Patricia Ireland

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Lionel Trilling

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
Tarja Halonen

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
Mercy Otis Warren