Equality Quotes
- Page 9These 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
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
Robert Reich
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
Anne Hathaway
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Lionel Trilling