The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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.
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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.
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.