I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
Martin Luther King, Jr.All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George OrwellMan can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma GandhiSeek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya AngelouWe are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
Lady GagaShould a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.
BuddhaA cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
Winston ChurchillOne person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart MillUntil the philosophy which hold one race superior, and another inferior, is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned - everywhere is war!
Bob MarleyUntil the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes - Me say war.
Bob MarleyThere should not be any trace of dislike or distrust on the score of nationality language, caste, economic status, scholarship, age or sex.
Sai BabaBefore God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert EinsteinThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane AustenIt is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar WildeEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de BalzacJealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
Joseph AddisonI want to see freedom and equality through my eyes and your eyes, Coretta Scott King. I opened my mouth to the lord and I won't turn back no!
Maya AngelouI'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. FieldsThe best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
AristotleThe true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIIIEquality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
AristotleA youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
ConfuciusThe only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
AristotleThere is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen KellerIf 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.
AristotleSocial progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl MarxOn his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did and observed that they both looked very ugly.
Jane AustenIt is not the possessions, but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.
AristotleDemocracy 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.
AristotleIsn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Desmond TutuWhen our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
George Washington CarverUntil justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
W. C. FieldsHating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad AliThat until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all, without regard to race - Dis a war.
Bob MarleyThere's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Albert EllisHave no friends not equal to yourself.
ConfuciusWe do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich NietzscheI like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston ChurchillInferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
AristotleAmericans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de TocquevilleThe more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.
Alanis MorissetteThere is only one caste, the caste of humanity. All of us belong to the human race, so everyone is equal. Therefore, love each one equally.
Sai BabaThe beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
AristotleBefore printing was discovered a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David ThoreauProclaim human equality as loudly as you like Witless will serve his brother.
Thomas HuxleyThere is nothing to equal the peace and joy that you get.
Sai BabaConciliate a strong man by submission a wicked man by opposition and the one whose power is equal to yours by politeness or force.
ChanakyaAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
Gertrude SteinThere is no discipline equal to service to smother the ego and to fill the heart with genuine joy. To condemn service as demeaning and inferior is to forego these benefits.
Sai BabaIf you want to see the true measure of a man watch how he treats his inferiors not his equals.
J. K. RowlingAll men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
PlatoThe poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
Anatole FranceBecause your own strength is unequal to the task do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man, but if anything is within the powers and province of man believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus AureliusNo passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. WellsChoose a subject equal to your abilities, think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what they are capable of bearing.
HoraceIf all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
SocratesHuman society minus God is equal to a forest of brutes.
Sai BabaSocialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston ChurchillI believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
Hillary ClintonThe man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself or he would cease to be human.
Honore de BalzacI never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine HepburnEquality is the public recognition effectively expressed in institutions and manners of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Simone WeilThen not only custom but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice and that justice is equality.
PlatoYour goals minus your doubts equal your reality.
Ralph MarstonAlmost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and in some parts of the world even violence.
Abdul KalamNow it's $200 billion. If we don't change the course the rest of the world could own $15 trillion of us. That's pretty substantial. That's equal to the value of all American stock.
Warren BuffettThe inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston ChurchillI 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 ObamaThe coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture aught below, is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand RussellI don't need equal time I am equal time!
Rush LimbaughAs equality increases so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Mason CooleyBy preparing a garland for a Deity with one's own hand, by grinding sandal paste for the Lord with one's own hand, and by writing sacred texts with one's own hand - one becomes blessed with opulence equal to that of Indra.
ChanakyaSubordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel JohnsonAll too will bear in mind this sacred principle that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail that will to be rightful must be reasonable, that the minority possess their equal rights which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas JeffersonForty for you sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
Joan RiversThe desire to annoy no one to harm no one can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich NietzscheHumanism was not wrong in thinking that truth beauty liberty and equality are of infinite value but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone WeilRightful 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 JeffersonAs a man is said to have a right to his property he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
James MadisonYou are not doing service for others. You are doing it always for yourselves to the God in you the God who is equally present in others.
Sai BabaThere 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 WilsonA wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
ChanakyaDemocracy... is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
PlatoPale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
HoraceHis lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
James Matthew BarrieTheir insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
Winston ChurchillThere is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect from event to event is often carried on by secret steps which our foresight cannot divine and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good, and good may bring forth evil both equally unexpected.
Joseph AddisonThey [Young People] have exalted notions because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations, moreover their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things / and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning / all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything / they love too much hate too much and the same with everything else.
AristotleThou ought to be nice even to superstition in keeping thy promises and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thomas FullerIt is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel JohnsonSpeech is the twin of my vision it is unequal to measure itself it provokes me forever it says sarcastically Walt you contain enough why don't you let it out then?
Walt WhitmanIn black neighborhoods everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board for totally different reasons.
Will SmithWomen have equal chances and equal rights to attain Godhead
Sai BabaEqual opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Laurence J. PeterYou have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Denis WaitleyTo reform means to shatter one form and to create another, but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
George SantayanaAnimals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equal.
Charles DarwinIn 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 RussellNothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Francis BaconThe passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours
Marcus AureliusMoney differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
John Kenneth GalbraithDemocracies are indeed slow to make war but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable rather than a vindictive peace.
Reinhold NiebuhrI have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
Nelson MandelaThe human understanding from its peculiar nature easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds
Francis BaconAll men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
Andy RooneyThe main business of religions is to purify control and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de TocquevilleSo far is it from being true that men are naturally equal that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel JohnsonI do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries, that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le
Winston ChurchillAmbidextrous adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
Ambrose BierceTo equal a predecessor one must have twice they worth.
Baltasar GracianEvery society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert KennedyA friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert HallSmall natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Honore de BalzacAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William JamesWith 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.
Barack ObamaOnce made equal to man woman becomes his superior.
SocratesIn every power of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
Jane AustenIt 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 JohnsonAll of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl SaganWhere divinity is sought after one ought always to behave in the spirit of Love devoid of the slightest trace of hate envy and anger. When one cultivates the inner look one attains the conviction of the basic equality of all.
Sai BabaBy nature all men are equal in liberty but not in other endowments.
Thomas AquinasWhile civilization has been improving our houses it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David ThoreauIn the usual progress of things the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
Alexander HamiltonExtremes in nature equal ends produce, In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander PopeThere is no austerity equal to a balanced mind and there is no happiness equal to contentment, there is no disease like covetousness and no virtue like mercy.
ChanakyaThat strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was holding us together.
Noel CowardI look on all with an equal eye.
Sai BabaDemocracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.
AristotleIt is better to have too much courtesy than too little provided you are not equally courteous to all for that would be injustice.
Baltasar GracianTo every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac NewtonDemocracy 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 TocquevilleHe who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
PlatoHonor and respect all religions equally.
Sai BabaOne wanders to the left another to the right. Both are equally in error but are seduced by different delusions.
HoraceOrder without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore RooseveltEvery one's voice was given equal weight in the empire ruled over by Rama.
Sai BabaConventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax, government transfer payments have become less progressive.
Paul RyanWe have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThat equals to being a fool having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that but they are broke.
Mike TysonEven as you are a citizen of your motherland but respect all countries, also respect all religions equally.
Sai BabaDisease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel JohnsonMarriage is like a cage, one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de MontaigneThere is little friendship in the world and least of all between equals.
Francis BaconIn the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlinYou know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S. TrumanI cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled, time and time again. Either make it separate but equal, or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
Bill CosbyGrant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press and I will provide you with a republic.
Alexis de TocquevilleOur necessities never equal our wants.
Benjamin FranklinWhen a match has equal partners then I fear not.
AeschylusHesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest HemingwayNo advance in wealth no softening of manners no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George OrwellMr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.
Jane AustenTrue love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Honore de BalzacGod equals man minus ego.
Sai BabaThere is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob, all authority is equally bad.
Oscar WildeThe Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Harry S. TrumanThe worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
AristotleInternet does not equal sodium pentothal.
Drew BarrymoreTrouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Soren KierkegaardThe law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
Anatole FranceIn the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Paul McCartneyJust as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities so the social process requires standardization of man and this standardization is called equality.
Erich FrommThe perfection of our union especially our commitment to equality of opportunity has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said 'In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.'
Paul Ryan