Quotes about equality

Especially as regards the laws relating to marriage there should be the most absolute equality between the two sexes. I do not think the woman should assume the man’s name.

Theodore Roosevelt

Working women have the same need to protection that working men have; the ballot is as necessary for one class as to the other; we do not believe that with the two sexes there is identity of function; but we do believe there should be equality of right.

Theodore Roosevelt

My main fight is for freedom and equality.

Muhammad Ali

True equality will only be achieved when we all fight the stereotypes that hold us back.

Sheryl Sandberg

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

Napoleon

Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I’m through fighting – working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.

Muhammad Ali

I am grateful to those Members of Congress who worked so diligently to guide the Equal Pay Act through. It is a first step. It affirms our determination that when women enter the labor force they will find equality in their pay envelopes.

John F. Kennedy

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.

Theodore Roosevelt

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.

Napoleon

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

Malcolm X