Memorable Equality Quotes

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"Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women."
Michelle Bachelet
"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"All forms of inequality are unacceptable and must be addressed."
Anita Roddick
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even if her shackles are very different from my own."
Audre Lorde
"Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
John F. Kennedy
"Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions."
Kiana Tom
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"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
Harper Lee
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
"We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same."
C. JoyBell C.
"A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves."
Gloria Steinem
"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality."
David Allan Coe
"The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with."
Eleanor Holmes Norton
"I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
Benjamin Franklin
"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."
Denis Waitley
"No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another."
Joseph Addison
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race."
Susan B. Anthony
"It is not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."
L.R. Knost
"If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission."
Anonymous
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"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right."
Aretha Franklin
"Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people."
Ron D. Burton
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love."
Nelson Mandela
"Gender equality is not a women's issue, it is a human issue. It affects us all."
Beyoncé
"The future depends on what you do today."
Mahatma Gandhi
"I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world."
Meryl Streep
"Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie."
Rihanna
"Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts."
Barbara Jordan
"The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race."
Susan B. Anthony
"I am not free while any man is a slave. Or any women is a prostitute, or a child is hungry, or a man is homeless."
Emma Goldman
"Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain and still succeed."
Misty Copeland
"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right."
Aretha Franklin
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Barack Obama
"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."
Michelle Obama
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"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."
Malala Yousafzai
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter their color."
Maya Angelou
"Being good to people is like being a goalkeeper. No matter how many goals you save, the people remember only the one that you missed."
Muhammad Ali
"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
Audrey Hepburn
"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."
Audre Lorde
"I never lose. I either win or learn."
Nelson Mandela
"The only way to deal with unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Albert Camus
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
Theodore Parker
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Mark Twain
"You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one."
John Lennon
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Dalai Lama
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"All men are created equal."
Thomas Jefferson
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
Thomas Jefferson
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."
Audre Lorde
"Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
Audre Lorde
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
Nelson Mandela
"Equality means giving everyone the same opportunities, not the same outcomes."
Unknown
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"When we deny the rights of any man, we deny the rights of all men."
Robert Kennedy
"In the end, the only power that matters is the power of a unified stand for justice."
John Perkins
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race."
Kofi Annan
"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it."
Frances Wright
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Freedom and equality are not luxuries to lightly cast aside."
Nelson Mandela
"There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all material for subjugation, for the benefit of everyone."
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
"I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."
Thomas Jefferson
"If you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community."
Cesar Chavez
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
Nelson Mandela
"The only way to deal with these people is to bring them to court."
Rosa Parks
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."
Simone de Beauvoir
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."
Honoré de Balzac
"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law."
Aristotle
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Thomas Jefferson
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
Mahatma Gandhi
"There will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."
Susan B. Anthony
"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
Abraham Lincoln
"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."
Angela Davis
"Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of men, where justice weighs heaviest."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days."
Nelson Mandela
"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value, no matter what their color."
Maya Angelou
"Equity is giving each child what they need to succeed."
Barbara Colorose
"Equality is leaving the door open for anyone who has the means to approach it; equity is ensuring there is a door in the first place."
Caroline Criado Perez
"Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women."
Pauli Murray
"Real equality is not and never can be mechanical."
George William Curtis
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
Aristotle
"There is no such thing as equality of ability. But there is such a thing as equality of opportunity."
Ludwig von Mises
"It's about creating a fairer society, where very few have great wealth and power and the large majority have very little."
Bernie Sanders
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
George Orwell
"Education is the great equalizer of men."
Horace Mann
"The truest and surest way to protect democracy is to educate all the people to understand and appreciate it."
Walter Hines Page
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
Benjamin Franklin
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