Welcome to our collection of Equality Quotes! In a world where diversity and inclusion are increasingly essential, the power of words can play a significant role in promoting equality. Throughout history, visionary individuals have shared their thoughts and insights on the importance of treating all people with fairness and respect, regardless of their background, gender, race, or beliefs. In this curated selection of quotes, we’ve gathered inspiring and thought-provoking statements from various thinkers, leaders, and activists who have championed the cause of equality. These quotes serve as a reminder of the enduring struggle for equal rights and the enduring hope for a more just and equitable society. Below, you’ll find a treasure trove of quotes on this topic, ready for you to explore, share, and use as you see fit. Copy them, place them on images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to amplify their impact in spreading the message of equality.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. John F. Kennedy
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality – an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. Friedrich August von Hayek
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. Lionel Trilling
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. W. C. Fields
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. Woodrow Wilson
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it’s equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. Brad Thor
Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. Plato
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. Bob Dylan
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. Emma Goldman
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership. Patricia Ireland
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions. Barack Obama
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. Thomas Mann
All men are born equally free. Salmon P. Chase
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Jeane Kirkpatrick
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity. Irving Kristol
Nobody really believes in equality anyway. Warren Farrell
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last! Billie Jean King
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. Marlo Thomas
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. Arthur Ashe
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned. Tarja Halonen
At some point we have to stop and say, There’s Marlee, not, There’s the deaf actress. Marlee Matlin
You can’t state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. Zadie Smith
I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That’s not to say they’re not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same. Mark Davis
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. Alexis de Tocqueville
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition. Mercy Otis Warren
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. Abraham Lincoln
Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space. Jason Mraz
The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress. Charles Fourier
Virtue can only flourish among equals. Mary Wollstonecraft
If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. Robert Kennedy
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. David Allan Coe
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves. Maximilien Robespierre
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. Golda Meir
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. Tom Robbins
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. Ellen DeGeneres
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women’s’ point of view. Jenny Shipley
Socialism values equality more than liberty. Dennis Prager
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. Friedrich August von Hayek
More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development. Kofi Annan
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. Adrian Cronauer
Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them. Queen Rania of Jordan
The word ‘equality’ shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it’s not the American way. Martha Plimpton
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl. Shirley Chisholm
The sole equality on earth is death. Philip James Bailey
For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it’s not two halves that make a whole – it’s two wholes that make a whole. Katy Perry
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. Harry A. Blackmun
I want to work on respecting individuals’ dignity. Equal rights, that’s where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that’s what we need. Christine Gregoire
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. Khalil Gibran
Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. Toni Morrison
All imaginable futures are not equally possible. Kevin Kelly
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. Agnes Macphail
People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. Linda Ellerbee
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish. Albert Einstein
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time. Marlo Thomas
The idea of equal rights was in the air. Lucy Stone
I speak not for myself but for those without voice… those who have fought for their rights… their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated. Malala Yousafzai
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. Bella Abzug
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. Bertrand Russell
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. Susan B. Anthony
I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life. Mike Huckabee
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. Bella Abzug
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. George Orwell
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. Herodotus
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. Frances Wright
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn’t be so outspoken. Betty Ford
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Suffrage is the pivotal right. Susan B. Anthony
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. Brigid Brophy
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it. George Mason
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Chief Joseph
Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits. Mike Honda
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. Crystal Eastman
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. Eric Liu
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. Mason Cooley
The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. Andrew Jackson
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women’s rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond. Charlotte Bunch
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. Samuel Johnson
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. Aristotle
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. Iris Murdoch
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. Frances Wright
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. Honore de Balzac
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.
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. Carl Schurz
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality. John Randolph
It’s just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs. Jane Wiedlin
The man who didn’t want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise. Earl Wilson
Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor. Rita Dove
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. Rosa Parks
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. Barbara Jordan
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. Will Rogers
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. Aristotle
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. Adam Clayton
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps. Patricia Ireland
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. Thomas Paine
