Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

Berthe Morisot

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

Cherie Blair

I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.

who sought to take a leadership role in terms of tolerance, equality and fairness.

Stella Young

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

Jodie Evans

For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.

Barack Obama

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

There have been some sighs on the phone, but they realize that we're doing this for equality of everyone,

Sara Sheridan

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

Ernestine Rose

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

Kim Campbell

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Nick Rahall

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

Mary McCarthy

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Mikhail Bakunin

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Iris Murdoch

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Ida Tarbell

The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.

Gloria Steinem

Most women are one man away from welfare.

H. L. Mencken

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

Marya Mannes

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Nelson Mandela

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

George H. W. Bush

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

Honore de Balzac

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

These families will never be truly safe, however, until full marriage equality is achieved.

Gertrude Stein

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Gerry Adams

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

Herbert Spencer

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.

H. L. Mencken

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.