In this world we all people are equal but we don't give importance to equality. Shayan e Shayari is providing you with these 102 equality quotes that will help you to know the importance of equality. 

Take a look at the following equality quotes to know why equality matters.




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

― Frances Wright

2. "Before God, we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." 

― Albert Einstein

3. "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."

― Carl Schurz

4. "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

― Timothy Leary

5. "The word ‘equality’ shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it’s not the American way."

― Martha Plimpton

6. "The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."'

― Aristotle

7. "Equality is not in regarding different things similarly; equality is in regarding different things differently."

― Tom Robbins

8. "A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."

― Gloria Steinem

9. "There’s nothing complicated about equality." 

― Alice Paul

10. "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 Annan

11. "The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way."

― Martha Plimpton

12. "I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

― Winston Churchill

13. "Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now."

― Joss Whedon

14. "I just believe in equality for all."

― Ashley Wagner

15. "I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness."

― Nelson Mandela

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

― Plato

17. "Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance."

― Charlize Theron

18. "Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons."

― Aristotle

19. "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because the law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

― Thomas Jefferson

20. "We are all equal in the fact that we are all different."

― C. Joybell C.



 21. "I never doubted that equal rights were the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me, there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."

― Alice Paul

22. "All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference."

― Voltaire

23. "There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion."

― Malala Yousafzai

24. "Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens."

― David Cameron

25. "All this talk about Equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."

― Bob Dylan

26. "All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free."

― Voltaire

27. "If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

― J. K. Rowling

28. "Equality implies individuality."

― Trey Anastasio

29. "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

―  Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

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

― Aristotle

31. "Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society."

― Sonia Sotomayor

32. "Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions."

― Slobodan Milosevic

33. "I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and Equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions."

― Barrack Obama

34. "To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

― William Faulkner

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

― Chief Joseph

36. There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. 

― Woodrow Wilson

37. "It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."

― Samuel Johnson

38. "We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under the law. If we do that, we have done enough."

― Ben Stein

39. "Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag."

― Adrian Cronauer

40. "I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."

― W. C. Fields



41. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

― Martin Luther King

42. "In order for us to have gender equality, we have to stop making it a girl fight, and we have to stop being so interested in seeing girls try to tear each other down."

― Taylor Swift

43. "If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

― J. K. Rowling, British Author

44. "A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes."

― Sheryl Sandberg

45. "Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, the order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining."

― Alan Moore

46. "Fairness is what justice really is."

― Potter Stewart

47. "We need to resist the tyranny of low expectations. We need to open our eyes to the inequality that remains. We won’t unlock the full potential of the workplace until we see how far from equality we really are."

― Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook

48. "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 DeGeneres

49. "Six feet of earth make all men equal."

― Italian Proverb

50. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

― Martin Luther King

51. "Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts."

― Barbara Gittings, American activist for LGBT equality

52. "Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

― Honore de Balzac

53. "Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold sticks."

― William Makepeace Thackeray

54. "Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of the proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value. If all men are equal, then all men are of the same essence, and the common essence entitles them of the same fundamental rights and equal liberty… In short, justice is another name of liberty, equality, and fraternity."

― B.R. Ambedkar

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

― Arthur Ashe, Tennis Player

56. "The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality."

― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

57. "Unless a man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality."

― Albert Clayton Powell

58. "Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents."

― Viscount Samuel

59. "Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation."

― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

60. "The sole of equality on earth s death."

― Philip James Bailey



61. "All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise."

― Evan Esar

62. "All men are equal: it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference."

― Voltaire

63. "For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it’s not two halves that make a whole – it’s two wholes that make a whole."

― Katy Perry, Musician

64. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

― George Orwell

65. "Nature smiles at the union of freedom and Equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies."

― Will Durant

66. "Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone’s responsibility."

― Ban Ki-moon

67. "I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity."

― Marley Dias

68. "We came equals into this world and equals shall we go out of it."

― George Mason

69. "Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier tomorrow."

― Elizabeth Gaskell

70. "Gender equality must become a lived reality."

― Michelle Bachelet

71. "The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone gets the same thing and equity is everyone gets the things they deserve."

―  DeRay Mckesson, Civil Rights Activist

72. "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."

― Mahatma Gandhi

73. "Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery."

― James Fenimore Cooper

74. "I want for myself what I want for all women, absolute equality."

― Agnes Macphail

75. "It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."

― Thomas Mann

76. "No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible."

― Percy Bysshe Shelly

77. "All imaginable futures are not equally possible."

― Kevin Kelly

78. "I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."

― Thomas Paine

79. "We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same."

― Rogue Gallart

80. "Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women."

― Joss Whedon



81. "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 Goldwater

82. "Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group."

― Steven Pinker

83. "Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality."

― Helen Clark

84. "Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."

― Khalil Gibran

85. "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 DeGeneres

86. "I hope that we always have diversity and that we have equality and representation every step of the way."

― Marsai Martin

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

― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

89. "I might not be the same, but that’s not important / No freedom ’til we’re equal, damn right I support it."

― Macklemore

90. "In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality."

― Katori Hall

91. "All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality."

― David Allan Coe

92. "All men are born equally free."

― Salmon P. Chase

93. "I want our future leaders to know what’s possible and to be part of a world where diversity and gender equality aren’t special programs but the natural way of operating."

― Pierre Nanterme

94. "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently."

― Harry A. Blackmun

95. "Equality must be maintained if it is promised."

― Janet Morris, Chris Morris

96. "Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity."

― Guy Standing

97. "Socialism values equality more than liberty."

― Dennis Prager

98. "The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination but lowers its flight to the level of the earth."

― Alexis De Tocqueville

99. "It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America."

― Billie Jean King

100. "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."

― Marlo Thomas

101. "It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways, equality and freedom of speech are a good things."

― Herodotus

102. "The cry of equality pulls everyone down."

― Iris Murdoch



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