equality
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
10 views from Arthur Ashe
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
19 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
2 quotes from Robert Toombs
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
6 quotes from Lionel Trilling
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
9 wisdom & wit from Iris Murdoch
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
2 quotes from Robert Toombs
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
63 thoughts from Samuel Johnson
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
5 more quotes from Frances Wright
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
100 views from Mahatma Gandhi
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
9 more thoughts from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
9 other quotes from Pope John XXIII
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
12 views from Mao Zedong
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
12 quotes from Rudyard Kipling
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
5 more quotes from Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
41 views from Martin Luther King, Jr.
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 other quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
9 quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
10 sayings from Charles de Secondat
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
56 sayings from Khalil Gibran
I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
24 wisdom & wit from W. C. Fields
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.
47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
6 other quotes from Barbara Jordan
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
2 more wisdom & wit from Agnes Macphail
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
105 more views from Albert Einstein
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
9 other wisdom & wit from Andrew Jackson
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
2 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Tucker
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.
20 quotes from Anatole France
The sole equality on earth is death.
6 more sayings from Philip James Bailey
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
6 other sayings from Mary Wollstonecraft
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
6 quotes from B. R. Ambedkar
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
2 other quotes from J. M. Barrie
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
13 quotes from James M. Barrie
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
53 other views from Honore de Balzac
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
33 more sayings from Thomas Huxley
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.
6 quotes from Mikhail Bakunin
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
21 thoughts from Malcolm X
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
14 sayings from Golda Meir
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
47 other quotes from George Orwell
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
4 quotes from Mary McCarthy