Equality

Equality is the state or quality of being equal, usually as it relates to status, rights, and opportunities. Equality promotes diversity; diversity promotes well-rounded solutions to problems. Below are some of the greatest equality quotes on the web.

"The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone."
― Dan Savage
"Socialism values equality more than liberty."
― Dennis Prager
"Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality."
― Helen Clark
"I would point out that Japan’s proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States."
― Hideki Tojo
"In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently."
― Harry A. Blackmun
"It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing."
― Herodotus
"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality."
― David Allan Coe
"To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism."
― Herbert Read
"As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day."
― Hilary Rosen
"The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization."
― Herbert Croly

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