Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

equality

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. 9 quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. 57 more thoughts from Will Rogers

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. 9 wisdom & wit from Pope John XXIII

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. 12 views from Rudyard Kipling

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. 5 more sayings from Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. 12 more quotes from Mao Zedong

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally. 24 other thoughts from W. C. Fields

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. 9 other quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. 41 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality. 3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war. 10 more quotes from Charles de Secondat

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. 47 other sayings from Abraham Lincoln

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. 6 more quotes from Barbara Jordan

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. 9 quotes from Andrew Jackson

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. 2 other views from Agnes Macphail

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. 20 other quotes from Anatole France

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. 2 more thoughts from Benjamin Tucker

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. 6 more quotes from B. R. Ambedkar

Virtue can only flourish among equals. 6 sayings from Mary Wollstonecraft

The sole equality on earth is death. 6 sayings from Philip James Bailey

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. 53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. 53 other sayings from Honore de Balzac

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. 33 thoughts from Thomas Huxley

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying. 6 more quotes from Mikhail Bakunin

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. 21 other quotes from Malcolm X

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. 14 views from Golda Meir

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. 2 quotes from J. M. Barrie

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. 13 sayings from James M. Barrie

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. 47 views from George Orwell

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. 4 other quotes from Mary McCarthy

The cry of equality pulls everyone down. 9 quotes from Iris Murdoch

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. 2 quotes from Robert Toombs

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. 2 sayings from Robert Toombs

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. 6 more wisdom & wit from Lionel Trilling

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. 19 sayings from Alexis de Tocqueville

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. 10 quotes from Arthur Ashe

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. 63 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson

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. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson

Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it. 5 views from Frances Wright

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. 100 other sayings from Mahatma Gandhi