Quotes about equality

The weaker are always anxious for justice and equality, while the strong pay no heed to either.

Aristotle

It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.

Nikola Tesla

Equality is essential to human life and well-being.

Desmond Tutu

A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

Coco Chanel

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Napoleon

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world’s goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power.

Henry Ford

…there is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It’s very hard in the military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

Nelson Mandela

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

Nelson Mandela

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery