quotations about equality
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
Short Studies on Great Subjects
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
REX STOUT
The League of Frightened Men
The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Let me take you on a little trip
My supersonic ship's at your disposal
If you feel so inclined. Well alright.
Nobody's gonna travel second class
There'll be equality
THE KINKS
"Supersonic Rocket Ship"
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs.
TERRY EAGLETON
Why Marx Was Right
Equality begins in the grave.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not being divisive; those fighting to keep those people out are.
JON STEWART
The Late Show, July 21, 2016
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
La Duchesse de Langeais
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
The American Enterprise
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Democracy in America
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
AYN RAND
The Fountainhead
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of that universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
LORD ACTON
The History of Freedom in Antiquity
People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.
JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time
Equality begins with economic empowerment.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
ERNESTINE L. ROSE
History of Woman Suffrage
The power of equality
Is not yet what it ought to be
It fills me up like a hollow tree
The power of equality
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
"The Power of Equality"
Invisible hand clutching at the throat
Statistical sham an emperor's rags it's sad it's so sad
Because equality's the only plea green fields are burning
The reef's on fire and bellies are swollen they're hurting
A willing victim's I don't think so
We won't be pinned against the wall
There is no slogan that can feed you
MIDNIGHT OIL
"Tone Poem", Capricornia
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
JANE ADDAMS
Twenty Years at Hull-House
How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so laboriously built up.
BHIMRAO RAMJI AMBEDKAR
Writings and Speeches
Equality lies only in human moral dignity.... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The Brothers Karamazov