Equality Quotes - Page 7

• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Freedom, Diversity

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Lovely, Liberty, Sacred

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”

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• To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

  Herbert Read

  Literature, World, Realizing

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Brother, Human Equality, Humans

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1901). “Collected Essays”

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• 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

  Earth, Advent, Share

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• Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

  Ronald Takaki

  Time, Memories, Air

  "What does it mean to be Asian American? / The passing of Cal Prof. Ronald Takaki, who helped define the term, leads Jeff Yang to reflect on its relevance in the Age of Obama" by Jeff Yang, www.sfgate.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Dust, Together

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 246

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• Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Athlete, Trying

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• People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Skills, People, Community

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.149, TAN Books

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• 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

  Men, America, Doe

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.154, Routledge

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• Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

  James Russell Lowell

  Humility, People, Christian Inspirational

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.49

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• There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, Men, Opportunity

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.27, tredition

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• I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Law, Justice, Political

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• My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

  James Meredith

  Father, America, Race

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• Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

  Robert Owen

  Women, Rights, Liberty

  "The Book of the New Moral World, Vol. 6". Book by Robert Owen, 1836-1844.

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• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

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• Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.

  Ricky Gervais

  Marriage, Sex, Gay

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Apr 29, 2015

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• 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

  Political, Democracy, Principles

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• If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.

  Isocrates

  Freedom, Rights, Political

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• The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the workmen in the camp to receive the salary of the legislator... who want to level even talents, knowledge, the virtues, because they themselves have none of these things.

  Jacques Pierre Brissot

  Knowledge, Political, Want

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• We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

  Jacque Fresco

  Integrity, Fighting, Rights

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.

  Francois-Noel Babeuf

  Education, Sex, Philosophy

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• The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

  Julian Bond

  Freedom, Rights, Liberty

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• If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Attitude, Men

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