equality Quotes

“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

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“It is precisely because the force of circumstances tends continually to destroy equality that the force of legislation should always tend to its maintenance.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“We're all human beings here, one like the other.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem—just to avoid violence.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority, perfect equality affords no temptation.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“Thus the principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Every citizen, it is said, must have equality, and therefore in a democracy the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

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