Quotes about Equality
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
— John Updike
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.
— Dean Frazer
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
— GK Chesterton
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
— Audre Lorde
There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.
— Al Gore
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
— Alice Hoffman
Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.
— Gloria Steinem
I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.
— Jimmy Carter
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
— Stephen Malkmus
And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.
— Abraham Lincoln