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These are the glowing embers’ collection Equality Quotes that are inspiring.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income , and the really great in favour of equality.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Equality of opportunity does not mean equality of responsibility.
~John F Kennedy

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
~Aristotle

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
~ Heinrich Heine

In the state of nature…all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
~ Charles de Montesquieu

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
~Kahlil Gibran

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
~Irving Kristol

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
~ Voltaire

Democracy arose from men thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal in all respects
~ Aristotle

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
~Aristotle

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
~ Kahlil Gibran

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
~ Voltaire

All the people like us are We,
And everyone else is They.
~Rudyard Kipling

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
~Arthur Ashe

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
~ Simone Weil

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

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
~Mao Tse-Tung

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
~Aldous Huxley

Men are born equal but they are also born different.
~Erich Fromm

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
~ Samuel Johnson

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
~Anna Chennault

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

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.
~Theodore Roosevelt

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

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
~Lord Acton

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
~Henry Becque

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