Equality Quotes - Page 5

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

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.

Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

give the man of color an equal opportunity with the white, from the cradle to manhood, and from manhood to the grave, and you would discover the dignified statesman, the man of science, and the philosopher.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.