Thoughts of Famous Equality Quotes in English and Sayings

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

- Hayley Williams

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

- Samuel Johnson

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.

- Steven Pinker

We were all here to learn. He was the one who had a problem, not I. Perhaps it was time for fathers to teach their sons how to behave around young women. They were not born superior, no matter how society falsely conditioned them. We were all equals here.

- Kerri Maniscalco

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.

- Isaiah Berlin

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.

- Malcolm X

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.

- Joss Whedon

We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. I will not blind myself and say that my black brother is not different from me. I will not blind myself and say that my brown sister is not different from me. But my black brother is he as much as I am me. But my brown sister is she as much as I am me.

- C. JoyBell C.

At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.

- Ayn Rand, Anthem

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

- Mahatma Gandhi

Equality Sayings List in English

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

- Erich Fromm

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

- Timothy Leary Quotation

Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.

- A Quotation From Albert Einstein

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

- Marie Shear

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

- Socrates

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

- George Carlin

Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.

- N.K. Jemisin

If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.

- W.H. Auden

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

- Shirley Chisholm

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

- Aristotle

If all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

Thomas Hobbes

Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

- George Orwell

Equality… is the result of human organization.  We are not born equal.

- Hannah Arendt

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

- Mohandas Gandhi

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

- Voltaire

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.

- Ashly Lorenzana

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

- Thomas Jefferson

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

- Aristotle

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

The Ego is a veil between humans and God." “In prayer all are equal.

- Rumi

When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

- Franklin Leonard

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

St. Thomas Aquinas

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

- Frances Wright

The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.

Henry Becque

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

- Aristotle

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Viscount Samuel

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

- Criss Jami

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

- Khalil Gibran

All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.

Voltaire

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Mason Cooley

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

- Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

- Winston S. Churchill

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free.

Voltaire

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

Honore de Balzac

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Jostein Gaarder

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

Arthur Ashe

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

- Plato

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Kofi Annan

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

- Abraham Lincoln

Equality Thought in English

Chains of gold are still chains.

- Robert Thier Download or Share

We are all alike, on the inside.

- Equality Quotes by Mark Twain Download or Share

The sole equality on earth is death.

- Philip James Bailey Download or Share

All men are equal before fish.

Herbert Hoover Download or Share

Six feet of earth make all men equal.

- Proverb

Perfect love cannot be without equality.

Scottish Proverb

The love of democracy is that of equality.

- Charles de Montesquieu Quotes

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

Kevin Kelly Download or Share

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

- Albert Einstein Download or Share

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

- Publilius Syrus Download or Share

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

- Theodore Roosevelt Download or Share

Equality Quotation in English

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions. It only guarantees equality of opportunity.

- Irving Kristol

Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.

- Connor Franta

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

- Ayn Rand *

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.

Thomas Jefferson

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

- Aristotle

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Bella Abzug

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

- William Golding

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

- John Locke

The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.

- Cecil Frances Alexander

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

- Tom Robbins

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Bob Dylan

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

- Naomi Wolf

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

- Aldous Huxley

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

- Terry Eagleton

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

- Malcolm X

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs, when placed beneath it.

Ninon de L'Enclos

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Linda Ellerbee

There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.

Paul Burton

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Is sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

- Marquis de Vauvenargues

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

Steven Pinker

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

- Josephine Baker

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

Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.

- Jodi Picoult

Equality Quotes List

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

- Christina Hoff Sommers

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

- Steven Pinker

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

George Orwell

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

- Abraham Lincoln

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

- Milton Friedman

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

- Eric Berne

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

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

- Octavia E. Butler

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

- Douglas Adams

Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.

- Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

- Thucydides

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.

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

- Lucretia Mott

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

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

- Jane Austen

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

- Seth Grahame-Smith

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

- Kathryn Stockett

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

- Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

- Carl Shurz

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.

- Equality Quotes by Aristotle

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Samuel Johnson

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

- H.L. Mencken

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Erich Fromm

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Thomas Jefferson

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

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

- Peter Cameron

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Us declaration of Independence

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

- Bertrand Russell

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.

- Alan Bennett

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

- Harper Lee

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second - if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

- Carl Schmitt

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

- Criss Jami, Killosophy

We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves.

- Suzy Kassem

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.

-Simone Weil

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.

- Quotes by Charles de Montesquieu

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

- Mary Wollstonecraft