A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.
Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.
Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.
Equality 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.
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.
I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
I tasted the bread and wine of equality.
We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where there is fairness and equality -- when every man and country is treated and viewed equally. My father believes that there is no such thing as justice because all his life he has witnessed the tipping of the scales. We must change this widespread mentality by making equality a reality, not just something we read and hear about on the TV and in literature.
There cannot be friendship without equality.
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.
Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.