Equality Quotes

Sometimes life takes unexpected turns. Sometimes we hide the very core of our existence because we fear the judgment of others. Sometimes the universe shifts and we are provided with a brief moment to begin anew. These moments allow us to become fearless and let our perfectly created souls shine.

~ Cori Garrison

I'll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships. But it just seems logical…a man and woman have to be somewhat equal…as in, one of them can't always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally.

~ Stephanie Meyer

What if we all stopped fighting to belong and realized that we already do? What if we acknowledged, in each interaction with ourselves and with others, the eternal, beautiful interconnected energy that flows between us? What if we recognized our equality and celebrated our differences? Imagine how the world could be.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

There is no need to become unique. We already are unique. There is no need to become equal. We already are equal. The greatest tragedies of humankind have come from people trying to force sameness on the level we are different, and trying to become different on the level we are the same. Peace is a matter of recognizing what is already there, not creating something new.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

~ Plato

Austen knew nothing of our modern quest for equality. People are not numbers, and so they are never “equal.” Some folk are higher placed than others, have more money, were more fortunate in their parents, or are brighter. These gifts do not come to us by merit but by the unfathomable providence of God.

~ John Mark Reynolds

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

~ Amy Harmon

And Yarvi realized that Death does not bow to each person who passes her, does not sweep out her arm respectfully to show the way, speaks no profound words, unlocks no bolts. The key upon her chest is never needed, for the Last Door stands always open. She herds the dead through impatiently, needles of rank or fame or quality. She has an ever-lengthening queue to get through. A blind procession, inexhaustible.

~ Joe Abercrombie

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

~ Wole Soyinka

We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

But all this business about kings and lords, it's against basic human dignity. We're all born equal. It makes me sick.''Never heard you talk like this before, Frederick,' said Nobby.'It's Sergeant Colon to you, Nobby.

~ Terry Pratchett

If God had wanted us to judge other people, we'd all have been born with silly wigs.

~ Adriano Bulla

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

~ Allan Dare Pearce

Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.

~ Thomas Paine

Make your life a tribute equal to the magnitude of the gift of life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It's not equality that counts, it's reprocity that counts. Love is not like a balance sheet. There's no such thing as double-entry accounting when it comes to love.

~ Debra Ollivier

We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.

~ Allan Dare Pearce

But, ladies and gentlemen, we will also be asked to make sacrifices in matters that are not our affair and that do not concern us, sacrifices that would leave our people bleeding or wounded, or even dead, from battle. There is no equality for us in this lifetime.

~ Allan Dare Pearce

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

~ Christian Ekström

To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.

~ Anthony Pan

Here we are,Arms in arms,Hearts to heartsWaiting in a haunted stop,For the sky to fall,When the world ends to a knot,We will rise into one.

~ Thilsath

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone's fear is equal.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren

~ Frederick Douglass

And she didn't judge nobody. She loved everyone equal- accountants, queers, musicians, she welcomed us all, said we were all idiots just the same.

~ Ruta Sepetys

The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she’d taken it hard. Her market excursions were the acme of her days, and trying to commiserate, I'd said, “I'm sorry, Handful, I know how you must feel.” It seemed to me I did know what it felt to have one's liberty curtailed, but she blazed up at me. “So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one to empty it?

~ Sue Monk Kidd

I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching.

~ Margarita Engle

The beauty of the infantry is its ability to truly teach tolerance. At the lowest level, when it is simply a matter of survival to count on everyone around you, regardless of religion or skin color, the only logical option is to ignore the differences.

~ Adam Fenner

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender.I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.

~ David Levithan

Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.

~ Allan Dare Pearce

We ought to be free to meet and mingle, --to rise by our individual worth, without any consideration of caste or color; and they who deny us this right are false to their own professed principals of human equality.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

Periapólí can only become the greatest city in the world if every boy and girl is born into a life where anything is possible.

~ Michael Oehley

Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.

~ Cory Bernardi

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

~ Christina Hoff Sommers

Candor is a compliment, it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

~ Peggy Noonan

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.

~ Drew Karpyshyn

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll