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Equality

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. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fourscore 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. – Abraham Lincoln

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. – Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally. – W. C. Fields

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. – Barry Goldwater

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. – Bertrand Russell

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. – Rosa Parks

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

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

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

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

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. – David Allan Coe

Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it. – Frances Wright

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

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. – Kurt Vonnegut

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. – Woodrow Wilson