equality Quotes

“Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons, and no government can stand which is not founded upon justice.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:government justice equality

“My husband used to say, that man and wife are equal in love because of their equal claim on each other. I never argued the point with him, but my heart said that devotion never stands in the way of true equality; it only raises the level of the...”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man, and that will only be understood among us.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:understanding equality

“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.

topic:truth men equality

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

― Confucius, Analects

topic:friendship equality

“Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals—for the good of both!”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

topic:good equality

“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and...”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:freedom equality

“For if 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 the government to the utmost.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:freedom government equality democracy

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