Quotes about Equality
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.
— James K. Polk
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
— Abraham Lincoln
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
— Arthur Ashe
God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.
— Margaret Fell
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
— Thomas Paine
If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
— Aristotle
I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.
— Nelson Mandela
We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.
— Hillary Clinton
Equality begins with economic empowerment.
— George H. W. Bush
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
— Jacques Maritain
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson