Equality Quotes

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

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

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

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

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

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

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

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

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.

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

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.