(906 quotes found)
“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
“The foundation on which all our constitution are built is the natural equality of man”
Thomas Jefferson
“You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.”
Arthur Ashe
“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
“Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.”
William Osler
“To marry unequally is to suffer equally.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”
“If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.”
Whoopi Goldberg
“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
“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”
Confucius
