All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

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.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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

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

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

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

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

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

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

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

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 government to the utmost.

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

All men are born equally free.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

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

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

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 together at the table of brotherhood.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

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

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

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.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

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

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

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

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.