Quotes about equality

"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."

Roosevelt, Theodore on equality
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"In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors."

Russell, Bertrand on equality   

"Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents."

Samuel, Viscount on equality
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"What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother."

Schlafly, Phyllis on equality   

"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."

Schreiner, Olive on equality   

"Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality."

Shaw, George Bernard on equality   

"The battle for women's rights has been largely won."

Thatcher, Margaret on equality   

"The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on equality   

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"We are all alike, on the inside."

Twain, Mark on equality
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"All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference."

Voltaire on equality
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"Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all."

Warshow, Robert on equality   

"Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings."

Weil, Simone on equality   

"If you really believe that all men are created equal, you are comfortable in any company."

Lipsey, Michael on equality   

"“Value equal benefits received for burdens endured”"

Leonard J. Berry on equality   

"They say the birds out number the people so everyday i am trying to make it equal."

BPBEE on equality   

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

Balzac, Honore De on equality