Equality Of People Quotes

There are some discrepencies in the writings of Paul. Some Christians chose those ones that say that women should be restricted in their services. I choose to emphasize the equality of people in God's eyes.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Equality for women is progress for all.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

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

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.

All men are born equally free.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

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.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

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

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

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.

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.

I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. 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.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

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.

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

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

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

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

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

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

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

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

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

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.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.