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Equality Quotes

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Mikhail Bakunin The Red Association (1870)

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.

Milton Friedman

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Felix Frankfurter

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. nature has made nothing equal, her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues Reflections and Maxims (1746)

Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Samuel Johnson

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

George Orwell

She in beauty, education, blood,
Holds hand with any princess of the world.

William Shakespeare King John (1598)

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (1651)

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

Eric Hoffer The True Believer (1951)

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

In our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

Karl Popper Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love, than it would be to have hatred and prejudice.

Rosa Parks

Islam prescribes the basic principles of social justice and establishes the claim of the poor to the wealth of the rich.

Sayyid Qutb Social Justice in Islam (1953)

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Susan B. Anthony

Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal.

Voltairine de Cleyre In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation (1893)

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy — I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Picket lines, school boycotts/They try to say it's a communist plot/All I want is equality/For my sister, my brother, my people, and me

Nina Simone

Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations — such is the national programme that Marxism, the experience of the whole world, and the experience of Russia, teach the workers.

Vladimir Lenin

For some must follow, and some command
Though all are made of clay!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Kéramos (1878)

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