I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.

'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

How do we get to equality? I don't think it comes from fear. I think it comes from understanding.

To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

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