Equality Quotes

All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.

Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

We must not forget that God created us equal.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

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