Quotes on Equality

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

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.

Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos; and Asians and Native Americans; and gay Americans and Americans with a disability. They swung open for you, and they swung open for me. And that's why I'm standing here today-because of those efforts, because of that legacy.

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.

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

We grant no dukedoms to the few,_x000D_ _x000D_ We hold like rights and shall;_x000D_ _x000D_ Equal on Sunday in the pew,_x000D_ _x000D_ On Monday in the mall._x000D_ _x000D_ For what avail the plough or sail,_x000D_ _x000D_ Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

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

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.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too._x000D_ _x000D_ Perfect love cannot be without equality._x000D_ _x000D_ A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing._x000D_ _x000D_ We are all alike, on the inside.

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

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

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

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.