Equality Quotes

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." Mahatma Gandhi

"From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own." Carl Schurz

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact." Honore de Balzac

"Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently." Tom Robbins

"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power." Barbara Jordan

"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes." Khalil Gibran

"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die." Bob Dylan

"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality." David Allan Coe

"All imaginable futures are not equally possible." Kevin Kelly

"We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live." Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"So, many years later there were many who still complained and questioned, ‘Why must you pick up Christians and Hindus in your ambulance?’ And I was saying, ‘Because the ambulance is more Muslim than you’." Abdul Sattar Edhi

"The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone." Pope John XXIII

"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure." Samuel Johnson

"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up." Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

"All men are born equally free." Salmon P. Chase

"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They." Rudyard Kipling

"As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance." Mason Cooley

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." Irving Kristol

"Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits." Mike Honda

"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it." Frances Wright

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Abraham Lincoln

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally." W. C. Fields

"I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality." John Randolph

"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism." Barry Goldwater

"Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view." Jenny Shipley

"Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition." Mercy Otis Warren

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." Albert Einstein

"You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil." Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them." B. R. Ambedkar

"Never take anyone’s death to heart Bilquis. Remember God by the equality with which He implements it. Nobody is different, the richest to the poorest, from here to the end of the globe face it equally. What an example of equality." Abdul Sattar Edhi