Quotes about Equality

Individuals cannot be free if there are impediments to reaching their full potential as human beings.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is.

I guess I just do being a man different than some.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you [Colonel Pickering], because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to.

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

No sooner does a woman show that she has genius or effective talent, than she receives the tribute of being moderately praised and severely criticised.