Equality Quotes

I might not be the same, but that's not important. No freedom 'til we're equal - damn right I support it

I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be,
so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

‎”Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; You have to discover your own being.

Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one self in all.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful... bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. In the full enjoyment of [life] every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to [life] artificial distinctions... to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society, who [cannot] secur[e] like favors..., have a right to complain of the injustice.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

No one should have to dance backward all their lives.

"I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes," she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Join the union, girls, and together say, ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work!’

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engage in gestures of superficial equality.

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Equality is not a concept...It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.