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Quotes about Equality

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.
— Boots Riley
Look, I'm not saying you can't make it if you grew up from a wealthy situation. I mean, a ton of people have.
— Frances Tiafoe
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let's face it - selling weapons systems to the Army isn't women's work.
— Judith Love Cohen
I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.
— Nelson Mandela
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
— Shirley Chisholm
I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.
— Muqtada al Sadr
Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
— Shirley Chisholm
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.
— Pope Francis