Equality Quotes
Equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect. There are different forms of equality, depending on the persons and social situations in question. It could also be thought of as a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced. Equality is important in a society if the society wants to grow as a whole without any bias for one section against the other. These quotes signify the importance of equality in a society and also underline some ways in which this has been achieved earlier and can be achieved ever. They also define the role of equality in any society.
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Viscount Samuel |
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In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles de Montesquieu
All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Shirley Chisholm
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.
Paul Burton
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
Anna Chennault
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Marlo Thomas
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Felix Frankfurter
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.
Shri Haidakhan Babaji
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
John James Ingalls
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Hannah Arendt
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Kahlil Gibran
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
The love of democracy is that of equality.
Charles de Montesquieu
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert F. Kennedy
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Voltaire
we are all of 1 accord Strike all our souls the same notechord It is only God whom we'll call Lord not those of butcher stock or warlords.
O Anna Niemus
The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
Aristotle
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan
Men are born equal but they are also born different.
Erich Fromm
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