quotations about equality
Invisible hand clutching at the throat
Statistical sham an emperor's rags it's sad it's so sad
Because equality's the only plea green fields are burning
The reef's on fire and bellies are swollen they're hurting
A willing victim's I don't think so
We won't be pinned against the wall
There is no slogan that can feed you
MIDNIGHT OIL
"Tone Poem", Capricornia
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
ERNESTINE L. ROSE
History of Woman Suffrage
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
DERRICK A. BELL
Ethical Ambition
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
JANE ADDAMS
Twenty Years at Hull-House
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Free to Choose
The equalization of fortunes may have some slight tendency to stifle animosity and to prevent dissension. But its effect is always inconsiderable, and often doubtful; since those who think themselves entitled to superiority will not patiently brook equality.
ARISTOTLE
Politics
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
H. L. MENCKEN
"H. L. Mencken: His Last Gibes and Brickbats", Life Magazine, Feb. 20, 1956
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
ERICH FROMM
The Art of Loving