Equality Quotes - page 2

The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other. (Mahathir bin Mohamad)
Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. View quote
Steven Pinker
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. View quote
Bob Dylan
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. View quote
Rosa Parks
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. View quote
Peggy Noonan
Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead. (T. H. White)
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. View quote
Paul Dirac
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life. View quote
Michael J. Sandel
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. View quote
Harlan F. Stone
Democracy in the sense of political equality and majority rule is by no means the most desirable, that is, optimal solution for all kinds of associations. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. View quote
Arthur Henderson
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. View quote
Langston Hughes
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words. View quote
Bianca Jagger
Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now. (Imelda Staunton)
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference. View quote
Robert Reich
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. View quote
Robert Toombs
There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women. View quote
Geert Wilders
It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg