Quotes about Equality
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
I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.
- Aristotle
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.
- Thomas Paine
The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.
- Will Rogers
I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.
- Hillary Clinton
Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
- Walt Whitman
We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
- Samuel Johnson