I leave you the best phrases of equality of great historical and contemporary authors such as Alan Moore, Margaret Thatcher, Emma Watson, Aristotle, Plato, Theodore Roosevelt. Thomas Jefferson. Malcolm X. Voltaire. Dr. Seuss, Natalie Portman and many more.
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Statue of a woman with a balance, a symbol of justice and equality before the law. Source: pixabay.com
-The citizens of a state may not be equally powerful, but they can be equally free. -Voltaire.
-No man is above the law, and no one is below it. -Theodore Roosevelt.
-A man of quality never feels threatened by a woman of equality. -Jill Briscoe.
-Equality and freedom are not luxuries that we can put aside with extreme lightness. Without them, order cannot last. -Alan Moore.
-No government has the right to tell its citizens who they may or may not love. The only weird people are those who don't love anyone. -Rita Mae Brown.
-Equality is not a concept. It is not something we should be fighting for. It is a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to exist in this world, for both men and women. -Joss Whedon.
-Perfect love cannot exist without equality. -Scottish proverb.
-The future is all of us. We need to add seats to the table. We are not removing seats. We need to include everyone. And this is to improve the world. -Natalie Portman.
-At the top you can enjoy great views, but down here, deep down, we should also have rights. -Dr. Seuss.
-It is our time for women to have equal pay and equal rights. -Patricia Arquette.
-No one can give you freedom. No one can give you equality, justice or anything else. If you are a person, take it. -Malcolm X.
-The identity of our highest interests is born from equal rights; you cannot infringe the rights of your neighbor without jeopardizing yours. -Carl Shurz.
-Equality is not considering different things as similar, equality is considering different things as different. -Tom Robbins.
-The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights in it. -Chief Joseph.
-How can we create a change in this world when only half are invited or feel free to participate in the conversation? -Emma Watson.
-Whatever my right as a man, it is also the right of another. -Thomas Paine.
-The worst form of inequality is one that tries to make things that are equal unequal. -Aristotle.
-The most damaging phrase in languages is: "it has always been this way." -Grace Hopper.
-We will never have a true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. -Will Rogers.
-Men and women must be able to determine their own future, regardless of where they are born. -Melinda Gates.
-At some point, gay marriage will be normal, and anyone who opposed their civil rights will be as backward as George Wallace denying James Hood entrance to the University of Alabama just because he was black. -George Clooney.
-The freedom and equality are bad principles. The only true principle of humanity is justice, and justice for the weak is protection and kindness. -Henri-Frederic Amiel.
-We consider that these truths are evident: that all men are created equal; that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -Thomas Jefferson.
-Inequality, in all its forms (gender, LGBTQ, racial, etc.) is a problem that every company must face for its own benefit and to create a better world. It must be approached with the same enthusiasm with which products and markets are created. -Tony Prophet.
-I raise my voice, not so I can scream, but so that those who have no voice can hear. We cannot succeed if half of us are being repressed. -Malala Yousafzai.
-More countries have already understood that equality for women is a prerequisite for development. -Kofi Annan.
-Perfect love could not exist without equality.
-If you hate differences, you will be bored to death. -Toba Beta.
-We need women at all levels, including at the top of society, to change the dynamics, reshape the conversation and make sure that women's voices are heard and heeded, not unnoticed and ignored. -Sheryl Sandberg.
-True equality will never exist until women themselves help us make laws and elect those who make them. -Susan B. Anthony.
-The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to ground level. -Alexis de Tocqueville.
-If all men are born free, why are all women born slaves? -Mary Astell.
-In this world, it doesn't matter if you are rich or poor, ugly or handsome, everyone has equal status. Only those who respect others deserve respect.
-You learn about equality in history and in civic education, but you realize that life is not really like that. -Arthur Ashe.
-Equality is treating everyone equally. But fairness is taking differences into account, so that everyone has a chance to survive. -Jodi Picoult.
-A state that does not educate and train its women like men, is like a man who only trains his right arm. -Jostein Gaarden.
-The happiness of the "white" man cannot be bought with the misery of the "black" man. -Fredrick Douglass.
-No commitments are needed to give people their rights, no money is needed to respect the individual. No political pact is needed to give people freedom. No poll is needed to eliminate repression.-Harvey Milk.
-No one can argue more about women's rights. It's like arguing about earthquakes. -Lillian Hellman.
-The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. -Ricky Martin.
-If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. -Plato.
-The only stable state is one where all people are equal before the law. -Aristotle.
-Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of results is repression. -Dick Feagler.
-By nature, all men are equal in freedom, but not in other gifts. -Santo Tomás Aquino.
-We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. -C. Joybell C.
-When I look at a person, I see a person, not a rank, not a class, not a title. -Criss Jami.
-There should be no discrimination towards the languages that people speak, skin color or religion. -Malala Yousafzai.
-Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that the needs of all humans deserve an equal degree of attention. -Simone Weil.
-We must look beyond our own interests and attend to the interests of our society. -Klaus Schwab.
-Human beings are equal to each other. No one has any right or preference over the others.
-The search for life, freedom and happiness can become a reality for all if we eliminate the problems that prevent relations between races. -Bernard J. Tyson.
-When women do better, so do economies. -Christine Lagarde.
-Discriminatory laws disrupt the rule of law because they are the antithesis of fairness. It causes discredit to the law. Create resentment. It promotes an unequal outcome, which is degrading to both the benefited and the disadvantaged. -Lord Nicholls.
-Being free does not only imply freeing oneself from one's own chains, but living in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. -Nelson Mandela.
-All people are equal, and it is not their condition of birth, but only virtue that makes the difference. -Voltaire.
-As equality increases, so does the number of people fighting for dominance. -Mason Cooley.
-The parts of me that used to think that I was different, smaller or more in other things, almost made me die. -David Foster.
-It is not true that people are naturally equal, since no pair of people can be together for half an hour without acquiring a sense of evident superiority over the other. -Samuel Johnson.
-The fight for women's rights has been largely won. -Margaret Thatcher.
-If we can't end our differences, let's at least help make the world a safe place for diversity. -John F. Kennedy.
-The introduction of civil marriage between people of the same sex says something about the type of country we are. It says that we are a country that will continue to honor its proud traditions of respect, tolerance and equality. -David Cameron.
-Until we have equality in education, we will not have an egalitarian society. -Sonia Sotomayor.
"I'm probably not better than you, but I'm certainly just like you." -Harper Lee.
-The equality of men is a proposition to which, in normal times, no healthy individual would ever have consented. -Aldous Huxley.
-Our differences matter, but our common humanity matters even more. -Bill Clinton.
-Equality before the law is probably unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be executed, since what humans value most in this world are not rights but privileges. -HL Mencken.
-Men are born the same, but they are also born different. -Erich Fromm.
-It may not be the same, but that is not important. There will be no freedom until we are equals, and they are right, I support it. -Macklemore.
-It took me a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I'm not going to be silent. -Madeline Albright.
-One of the things about equality is not only being treated equally with a man, but also that you treat yourself equally with how you treat men. -Marlo Thomas.
-Equality is not the empirical premise that all human groups are equal; It is the moral principle that says that individuals should not be judged or limited by the average properties of their group. -Steven Pinker
-In the eyes of God, we are all equally wise, and equally foolish. -Albert Einstein.
-No advance in wealth, no moderation of manners, no reform or revolution, has brought us one millimeter closer to human equality. -George Orwell.
-Until you treat everyone equally, you do not have the right to complain about how anyone treats you.
-Virtue can only flourish among equals. -Mary Wollstonecraft.
-If you want to see the true facet of a man, see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. -JKRowling.
-I believe that women throughout the world deserve equality and freedom, but I am not in a position to tell women from other cultures how those previously mentioned should be seen. -Roxane Gay.
-Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can ever transform it into a fact. -Honore de Balzac.
-The defect of equality is that we only want it with our superiors. -Henry Becque.
-Some will be above others. Destroy inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-Inequality of results can only be accepted when there is equal opportunity.
-Living anywhere in the world and opposing equality for reasons of race or skin color is like living in Alaska and being against the snow. -William Faulkner.
-Equality is the soul of freedom; in fact, there is no freedom without it. -Frances Wright.
-Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. -Marie Shear.
-Coming generations will learn the equality of poverty and the love of calamities. -Khalil Gibran.
-Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of goods, the social process requires the standardization of people. -Erich Fromm.
-I have a fondness for pigs. Dogs admire us. Cats despise us. Pigs treat us as equals. -Winston Churchill.
-I believe in equality for all. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-Equality consists of the same treatment for similar people. -Aristotle.
-A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and total humanity of women and men. -Gloria Steinem.
-We have chosen the path to equality, let's not let them turn us around. -Geraldine Ferraro.