Equality Quotes

My mistakes are no worse than yours.

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

An index is a great leveller.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Why will our elections be equal? Because neither differences in regard to property (differences partly existing) nor differences of race and nationality will cause any privileges or disadvantages. Women will enjoy the right to elect and be elected equally with men. Our elections will be really equal.

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -Let it be that great strong land of loveWhere never kings connive nor tyrants schemeThat any man be crushed by one above.

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.

Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."

All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.

Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

You don't know who to believe. Like Abraham Lincoln. He said all men were created equal. He never went to a nude beach.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

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

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.