Quotes about equality

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Thomas Paine

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

Pink

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Napoleon

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Ellen DeGeneres

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity.

Will Durant

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

Barack Obama

I believe one day a ‘ban on gay marriage’ will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us.

Ellen DeGeneres

I have never seen to my knowledge a man, woman, or child who was in favor of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and white men.

Abraham Lincoln

There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself – as it is constructed – is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.

Malcolm X