Equality proverbs

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

- Aristotle99

◆ 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.

- Ellen DeGeneres99

◆ 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.

- Malala Yousafzai99

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

- Muhammad Ali Jinnah99

◆ 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.

- Alexis de Tocqueville99

◆ 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.

- Kofi Annan99

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

- Frances Wright99

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

- Will Rogers99

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

- John F. Kennedy99

◆ 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.

- Queen Rania of Jordan99

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

- Chief Joseph99

◆ Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

- Alexis de Tocqueville99

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

- Plato99

◆ 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 Lincoln99

◆ 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 Goldwater99