Quotes on Equality

Without women's equal access to positions of decision-making power and a clear process to get there, gender equality, global security, and peace will never be realized.

The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to improving the well-being of most men and women is the growing socioeconomic inequality within each sex.

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.

The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

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.

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.

The antidote to inequality is equality. The question is how do you achieve equality? I believe that, for business, which is where I can speak, we have to shift from shareholder maximization to stakeholder maximization.

I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.

The thirst for liberation and equality can never come at the expense of dehumanizing other marginalized groups - especially at a time when hate crimes against Jews have increased significantly.

I could speak for hours about equality and what needs to change in football and in society as a whole. But in the end, everything comes back to respect.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

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

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