Equality Quotes

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

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

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

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

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

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.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

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

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

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

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

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.