Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

equality

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

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

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

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

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

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

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

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

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

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

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

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

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.