280 Quotes Regarding Equality


The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
David Allan Coe

Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Frances Wright

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.
King Hussein I

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
Kurt Vonnegut

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Mason Cooley

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

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Harry A. Blackmun

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Shirley Chisholm

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica Jong

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Barbara Jordan

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Marlo Thomas

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
Franz Boas

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Iris Murdoch