1,457 Quotes About Equality

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

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.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

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.

Four score and seven years ago, our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.