Equality Quotes

Equality is a social state of affairs that refers those two individuals who should be treated with the same status in certain respect. Equality is important if the society wants to grow as a whole. Equality can be of different types including equality of rights, equality of status, equality of wealth, etc. Here is a collection of famous equality quotes that will help you understand the importance of equality in a society. Read these famous parity quotations to learn more about it.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
People
Matt Bomer

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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
Life Democracy
B. R. Ambedkar

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Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
Sureness Possible Democracy Time
Thomas Mann

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Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
Samuel Alito

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I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.
Battles Time History
Michael B. Jordan

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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.
Kindness
Ellen DeGeneres

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I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
Opportunities Peace
Malala Yousafzai

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Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Men Responsibility Women
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Liberty Religion
B. R. Ambedkar

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Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
Life
Jackie Robinson

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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Slavery Freedom
Alexis de Tocqueville

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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Men Independence Day Observation Unity
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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.
Love Religion Affection Belief
Thomas Paine

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Sorry, equality is a myth. Women aren't as strong as men - they can't even hold their booze as well as men.
Men Women
Gavin McInnes

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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
People Religion
Malala Yousafzai

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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Beauty Truth
Simone Weil

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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.
Sleep Law
Anatole France

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I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed the only question in my lifetime would be - how much further do we extend those values? I did not think in my lifetime we'd actually be having an argument about those values.
Dignity
Keir Starmer

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Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Society Education
Sonia Sotomayor

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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

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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.
Anne Hathaway

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This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles.
Greatness
Thurgood Marshall

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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Nothing Democracy Liberty
Alexis de Tocqueville

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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
Greatness Power Women
Zendaya

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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Power Right Earth
Honoré de Balzac

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All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
People
Bob Dylan

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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.
Manners Attention
Simone Weil

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Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
Opportunities Blood Desire Dogs
Charles Kingsley

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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.
Change
Robert Kennedy

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

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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.
Life Religion
B. R. Ambedkar

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Inspiration Men Motivation Accomplishment
Malcolm X

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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir

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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Women
Susan B. Anthony

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When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
Women
Billie Jean King

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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Wisdom
Andrew Jackson

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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.
Self-Reliance
Sean Connery

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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Variety World
John F. Kennedy

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For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.
Katy Perry

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That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.
Battles Society
B. R. Ambedkar

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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
Women
Pamela Anderson

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It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.
People Marriage
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Wonder Woman, she's amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stands for. She's all about love and compassion and truth and justice and equality, and she's a whole lot of woman.
Love Truth Justice
Gal Gadot

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My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.
Science Religion
B. R. Ambedkar

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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
Trying
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Government Democracy
Plato

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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Right
Susan B. Anthony

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Things
Aristotle

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Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.
Women Gender
Justin Trudeau

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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Country Time Law
Lyndon B. Johnson

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Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Women
Toni Morrison

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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
James M. Barrie

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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.
Greatness Opportunities Women
Woodrow Wilson

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Sweden is a good country to raise a family in because there is an equality there I don't feel in the States.
Family Good Country
Alexander Skarsgard

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The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Sleep Law
Anatole France

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I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Trust Law
Susan B. Anthony

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It's about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I'm pushing, and I'm a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities.
People
Emmanuel Macron

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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
Venus Williams

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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Business Control
Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. - McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans.
History Teachers
Brett Kavanaugh

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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Society
Mao Zedong

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Environment
Erich Fromm

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Liberty
Abraham Lincoln

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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Battles Women
Margaret Thatcher

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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Democracy Government
Aristotle

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Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this, too, right along side of him.
Work
Ivanka Trump

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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Love Poverty
Khalil Gibran

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How do we get to equality? I don't think it comes from fear. I think it comes from understanding.
Understanding Fear
Rooney Mara

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China, as a nation, is a country under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, but it has introduced the market economy. As a country that is under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, normally what they should be seeking is equality of results.
Results Country Nation
Shinzo Abe

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Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.
Opportunities People Hope
Narendra Modi

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This commitment to equality and justice for all are the ideals that our country was founded upon and what we continue to aspire to as people. We cannot be complacent, and must vigilantly affirm this again and again, as bigotry and hatred have an insidious way of seeping into our society.
People Society Justice
Tulsi Gabbard

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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
Love Kindness
Lady Gaga

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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
Acceptance Marriage
Charlize Theron

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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.
Power
Abraham Lincoln

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For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
Greatness Opportunities Work
Nancy Pelosi

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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
Life Women
Jimmy Carter

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I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.
Work Government
Tulsi Gabbard

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Gender equality has long been at the forefront of my mind, and I think the Me Too movement has elevated many men's consciousness, my own included, about how to be better allies.
Mind
Cory Booker

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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Best People World
Barack Obama

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A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
People
Jimmy Carter

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Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.
Parents
Anushka Sharma

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I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.
Women Work
Kaley Cuoco

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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Democracy Respect
Aristotle

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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.
Time America
Bertrand Russell

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Marriage equality changed life for people.
Life People Marriage
Andrew Cuomo

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The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.
Things Sun
Isaac Newton

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Wisdom
Albert Einstein

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I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
Marriage
Andrew Cuomo

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Both at home and abroad, Ivanka Trump has been a strong and confident advocate for female equality.
Home
Kayleigh McEnany

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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mahatma Gandhi

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In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro made history by participating in the first male-on-female vice presidential debate against George H. W. Bush. What should have been a groundbreaking moment for gender equality in politics became a forum for old gender expectations.
Politics History
Kayleigh McEnany

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Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region.
Future Hope
Shakira

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Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
Greatness Sports
Venus Williams

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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
Determination Time
Barack Obama

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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
Family Respect Law
Barack Obama

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In my late 20s, I realized that I had a very clear social conscience and strong opinions about things like diversity, equality, and education, and while I tried to become more politically literate, I just couldn't catch on. It felt like I had walked into a movie that had already started, and no one would explain what had happened.
Variety Education
Tracee Ellis Ross

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