3 December 2020 Anatole France The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
3 December 2020 Herodotus It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
3 December 2020 Scott Weiland There’s a beauty in being part of a band, when there’s equality and trust.
3 December 2020 Sidonie Gabrielle Colette A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
3 December 2020 Frances Wright Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
3 December 2020 Catharine MacKinnon In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
3 December 2020 Mario Vargas Llosa Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
3 December 2020 Mary Douglas Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
3 December 2020 Adrian Cronauer Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali Jinnah You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
3 December 2020 Steven Pinker As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
3 December 2020 Paul Tsongas From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.
3 December 2020 Maureen Reagan I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
3 December 2020 Dan Savage The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
3 December 2020 Anne Hathaway I believe I’ve always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn’t do something because I was a girl.
3 December 2020 Samuel Alito Private religious speech can’t be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
3 December 2020 Patricia Ireland Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
3 December 2020 Alice Paul I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
3 December 2020 Ellen DeGeneres Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
3 December 2020 Anna Howard Shaw Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
3 December 2020 John Hope If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
3 December 2020 Olivia Thirlby I don’t believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it’s really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
