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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. -- Aristotle
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. -- Hannah Arendt
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. -- Aristotle
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. -- Frances Wright
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. -- Malcolm X
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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. -- Aristotle
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Equality is truly sweet. -- Kristin Chenoweth
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality -- Susan B. Anthony
Equality is a mortuary word. -- Christopher Fry
Equality begins with economic empowerment. -- George H. W. Bush
Equality has no place for genius. -- Allen Bloom
Justice is Equality...but equality of what? -- Aristotle
92, '93, '94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death." -- Hilary Mantel
Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny. -- Charles Forbes René de Montalembert
Equality is never given, it is taken. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
Equality for women is progress for all. -- Ban Ki-moon
Equality for women is progress for all. -- Ban Ki-moon
Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value. -- Mason Cooley
Equality is what does not exist among mortals. -- e. e. cummings
Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition -- Patty Sheehan
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions. -- Slobodan MiloseviÄ?
Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction. -- William Shakespeare
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons -- Aristotle
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Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice. -- Tony Honore
Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space. -- Jason Mraz
Equality, because without it there can be no liberty. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Equality cannot be reached if fought in a divisive way. -- Lady Gaga
Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it. -- Anthony Trollope
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. -- David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel
Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression. -- Dick Feagler
Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove. -- Jim Goad
Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history. -- Jim Cooper
Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality. -- Mel White
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it. -- Honore de Balzac
Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority. -- William James
Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it. -- George Saunders
Time for Tolerance,Equality, and Acceptance, It's allways TEA time with my Friends... -- Gregory Douglass
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. -- Tom Robbins
Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor. -- Rita Dove
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. -- B. R. Ambedkar
Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. -- Andrew Jackson
Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. -- George Bernard Shaw
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction. -- Frances Wright
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent. -- D. H. Lawrence
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view. -- Jenny Shipley
Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now. -- Samantha Power
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. -- Honore de Balzac
Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it. -- Anthony Daniels
Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it. -- Jimmy Connors
There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality. -- Charles Krauthammer
Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal. -- Oriana Fallaci
Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place. -- Theodore Dalrymple
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them. -- Steve Martin
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
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[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way. -- Pat Nixon
Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. -- Blaise Pascal
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it. -- Margaret Halsey
Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts. -- Barbara Gittings
Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise. -- Drew Karpyshyn
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. -- Alice Paul
Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income. -- George Bernard Shaw
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion. -- Wiley Blount Rutledge
Suffrage is the pivotal right. -- Susan B. Anthony
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. -- Iris Murdoch
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. -- Khalil Gibran
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. -- George Orwell
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion. -- Malala Yousafzai
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it. -- George Mason
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. -- David Allan Coe
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. -- Aristotle
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free -- Voltaire
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. -- Will Rogers
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. -- Shirley Chisholm
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. -- John F. Kennedy
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. -- J. K. Rowling
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. -- Susan B. Anthony
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
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. -- Rosa Parks
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. -- Milton Friedman
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. -- William Faulkner
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. -- Abraham Lincoln
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. -- Rosa Parks
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. -- Kofi Annan
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others. -- Tammy Bruce
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. -- Malcolm X
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. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
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. -- Crystal Eastman
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
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. -- Barry Goldwater
I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated. -- Malala Yousafzai
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. -- Robert Kennedy
Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. -- Thomas Jefferson
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior -- Socrates
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people -- Oscar Wilde
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely -- Aristotle
I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us -- Sacha Guitry
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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 -- Aristotle
It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standards of living, that membership of a national group should entitle to share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share -- Friedrich August Hayek
Visibility is not equality. -- Chelsea Manning
I thought equality was non-negotiable. -- Lady Gaga
I believe in gender equality. -- Demi Lovato
In 1965, I marched for equality. -- Alphonso Jackson

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