equality Quotes

March. Women\'s Day. Progressive women demand equality with men. The President should issue a decree: \"Consider the following activists of the Women\'s Movement men from the day of publication of the Decree (list follows)\". And they have long had nothing feminine except bras.

In championing equality for all people, we’re honoring the fundamental dignity that every individual deserves—our world grows stronger when everyone can thrive.

I\'m not just equality minister I am also a Treasury secretary.

As equalities minister, I am responsible for promoting equality of opportunity for everyone.

The main difference is not just competitive activity, it is equality of conditions, it is short sessions, plotlessness, reduced effect of randomness, reduced influence of luck

Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.

Gender equality has long been at the forefront of my mind, and I think the Me Too movement has elevated many men\'s consciousness, my own included, about how to be better allies.

To me, feminism is believing in women\'s equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

I\'m doing \'Rock of Ages\' one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I\'m advocating with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality.

Even the Declaration of Independence starts out all men are created equal, so I see my advocacy as part of an effort to make the equality principle everything the founders would have wanted it to be if they weren\'t held back by the society in which they lived and particularly the shame of slavery.

I didn\'t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.

Young men in my day really stepped up... These were champions for freedom, equality, and justice for all human beings, and they were educated individuals that used their education and knowledge to represent their case.

As long as we set up equality, we\'ll go in the right direction.

Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

When you don\'t have equality of opportunity because you don\'t have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

...we - Russians - are for equality, we did not trade in slaves, did not build our happiness on the tear of an African child, did not push a Chinese child into drug addiction and did not shoot Indians by tying them to the muzzles of guns. This does not mean that we are kind and fluffy, but we live in an unkind world and a knife in the boot of a boot would not hurt - our 'partners' are too unreliable, to put it mildly.

Equality of outcome is a discredited concept, failing on both logical and historical grounds, as anyone knows who has studied the misery of the 20th century.

If you can\'t bring them down economically you kill them, that\'s how you promote equality. You build a wall to keep them in the country. Socialism, communism, build walls to make sure people can\'t get out. In a country that\'s communist and builds a wall, there\'s nobody trying to get in. Works every time it\'s tried.

There is no such thing as equality, other than of opportunity and before the law. But there is no equality of what\'s gonna happen to you when you engage or pursue your opportunity, and there\'s no guarantee that\'s what\'s gonna happen to you once you have your equality before the law. There is no equality of outcome.

Equality is not possible. The pursuit of equality, however, people really love that. For some reason, people attach the most wonderful of motives to people who say they see all this inequality out there and need to fix it. It\'s just not fair. You\'ll hear it manifest itself in discussions about the so-called widening gap between the rich and the poor or the widening gap between men and women. It\'s like actually two twin beds.

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.

If you\'re a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it\'s about equality, it\'s about respect, it\'s about making the best of the world that we have.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

The anti-equality right wing has interests. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.

Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose in England, one landowner got most of the land and other people would have nothing to live on. He says it wouldn\'t matter much, because the rich land owner, by virtue of his sympathy for other people would distribute resources among them, so that by an invisible hand, we would end up with a pretty egalitarian society. That is his conception of human nature.