“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”
Equality sounds simple until you try to define it. These quotes wrestle with justice, fairness, civil rights, and the gap between how things are and how they should be. They come from activists, leaders, philosophers, and people who refused to accept the status quo.
“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”
“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”
“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.”
“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”
“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
“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.”
“With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.”
“OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.”
“You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.”
“For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class to secure opportunity and equality.”
“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
“Fourscore 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.”
“Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.”
“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.”