Equal
Definition: Being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value. A person or
thing that is the same as another in status or quality. Be the same as in number or amount.
Number of Quotes: 20
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of
consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
Bella Abzug
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug
Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
Tax laws also benefit those who have the best lobbying efforts ... and the larger the corporations are, the smaller proportion they pay in taxes.
Jimmy Carter
Odd things animals. All dogs look up at you. All cats look down at you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal.
Winston Churchill
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. Fields
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
Every high has an equal, measurable low.
Ellen Hopkins
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that operates with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as
Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Andrew Jackson
When women ask for equality, men take them to be demanding domination.
Elizabeth Janeway
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary
Ordinary people may not understand the meaning of democracy but they've a passionate regard for fair play.
Robert Maxwell
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
Given the natural differences between human beings, equality is an ethical aspiration
that cannot be realized without recourse either to despotism or to an act of fraternity.
Octavio Paz
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at becoming incompetent.
Laurence J. Peter
Where there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same income.
Plato
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the truly great in favour of equality.
George Bernard Shaw