Equality Quotes

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

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

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

I believe the Declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

It is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men.

While we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow. Advancement - improvement in conditions - is the order of things in a society of equals.

I hold if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands.