The 90 best equality phrases
Many believe that equality is about making everyone have the same economic or social level, but in reality, this concept goes beyond economics; it's about respecting others, and trying to give everyone equal opportunities to fulfill themselves and make their lives meaningful and fulfilling.
This has to do both with the way in which we treat the rest of the people, and with the social transformations that we want to promote.
To better understand this value, here we will a review of the best phrases about equality, commented.
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The most memorable equality phrases
This compilation of equality phrases helps to appreciate the importance that we all have the same opportunities to improve.
1. All men are born equal, but this is the last time they are. (Abraham Lincoln)
As we grow, we may be tempted to believe ourselves to be very special or even better than others.
2. The achievement of gender equality is more than an objective, it is a precondition for facing the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. (Kofi Anan)
Gender equality is extremely important.
3. Gender is between the ears and not between the legs. (Chaz Bono)
Gender is a set of roles and expectations to a certain extent arbitrary, but which allow the implantation of a system of domination and inequality.
4. I do not want women to have power over men, but over themselves. (Mary Wollstonecraft)
A reflection on the need to take the helm of one's life.
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5. Equal rights for all, privileges for no one. (Thomas Jefferson)
We all have the right to be equal before the laws and men.
6. The two sexes are not inferior or superior to each other. They are simply different. (Gregorio Marañón)
There is no weaker or stronger sex.
7. Before God, we are all equally wise and equally foolish. (Albert Einstein)
We are all identical in the eyes of God.
8. A man only has the right to look down on another when he has to help him up. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
You don't have to crouch before others, nobody is inferior.
9. The sun rises for everyone, and when it rains we all get wet.
People have a lot in common.
10. All human beings have their own dignity and each one is an end in itself. (immanuel Kant)
Decency is important and that helps us to be better.
11. The first equality is equity. (Victor Hugo)
Justice must be for everyone.
12. Where there is little justice, it is a danger to be right. (Francisco de Quevedo)
Injustice leads to avoid expressing oneself.
13. If man fails to reconcile justice and freedom, he fails in everything. (Albert Camus)
We must fight for justice and freedom.
14. If you practice fairness, even if you die you will not perish. (Tao te ching)
When you fight for an ideal, your legacy will not die.
15. The homeland is equity, respect for all opinions and consolation to those who are sad. (Jose Marti)
Having respect for the nation is an attitude that we must all apply.
16. When you lie, you rob the other of the right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. (Khaled Hosseini)
Lies and deception are thieves of equality and justice.
17. Justice is the queen of republican virtues and with her equality and freedom are sustained. (Simon Bolivar)
Without true justice there are no rights or freedom.
18. Achieving gender equality requires the participation of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility. (Ban Ki-moon)
All of us together must fight to make gender equality happen.
19. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. (Gloria Steinem)
It refers to how important it is to live as a couple.
20. The problem with equality is that we want it only with those above. (Henri Becque)
Many times we focus on helping those who are equal to us and leave the lower class to one side.
21. Gender equality must be a lived reality. (Michelle Bachelet)
It is inconceivable that in the 21st century, gender equality is not a reality.
22. All men are the same in at least one respect: their desire to be different. (William Randolph Hearst)
We always have the desire to be different from other people.
23. All men should be feminists. If they cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place. (John Legend)
The woman is looked down upon in many ways.
24. Being free is not just getting rid of your own chains, but living in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. (Nelson Mandela)
Our own freedom is achieved when we fight for that of others.
25. Calling women "the weaker sex" is slander; it is the injustice of the man towards the woman. (Mahatma Gandhi)
The woman is classified as the weaker sex, the reality is completely different.
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26. Equality may be a right, but there is no human power that can ever make it a fact. (Honoré de Balzac)
Achieving equality is a difficult task to achieve.
27. When a man wants to kill a tiger, he calls it sport; when it is the tiger who wants to kill him, he calls it ferocity. (George Bernard Shaw)
Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you.
28. Fighting for women's rights often makes us synonymous with hating men. I only know that one thing is true: We need to stop those thoughts. (Emma Watson)
Women should not minimize men by fighting for their ideals.
29. If someone considers to be limited by gender, race or origin of him, he will become even more limited. (Carly Fiorina)
There is no obstacle that prevents you from being free.
30. There is no barrier, lock or bolt that you can impose on the freedom of my mind. (Virginia Woolf)
Freedom of thought is something that we must all possess.
31. The only stable state is one in which all citizens are equal before the law. (Aristotle)
For this great philosopher In Ancient Greece, the law was made for everyone without any kind of distinction.
32. Equality is like gravity, a necessity. (Joss Whedon)
Without equality the world would be in chaos.
33. Racial, gender, sexual and other forms of discrimination and violence cannot be eliminated without changing the culture. (Charlotte Bunch)
There are cultures where women, people of color, and sexual preference are grounds for segregation and intimidation.
34. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow you. Don't walk behind me, I may not guide you. Walk with me and be my friend. (Albert Camus)
We must not believe ourselves to be superior or inferior to anyone.
35. Educating in equality and respect is educating against violence. (Benjamin Franklin)
When we educate children in an environment of respect and equality, we will be forming noble and empathetic people.
36. The superior idea of discipline that these soldiers carry in their blood, isn't it enough to invalidate their capacity for fairness? Who says discipline says obedience. (Émile Zola)
Discipline does not always mean obedience.
37. Love is not tamed, it is not improvised, it is not imposed; it is built between two. In all fairness. (Yasmina Khadra)
The love it is built between two, from a relationship of equals.
38. Nothing is preferable to justice. (Socrates)
Justice has to be the north.
39. Equality before the law is not a fact but a political demand based on a moral decision. (Karl Raimund Popper)
The laws have to be the same for everyone.
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40. No one can give you your freedom. No one can give you your equality or justice or anything else. If you are a man, take it. (Malcolm X)
Only you are responsible for your destiny.
41. If you practice fairness, even if you die you will not perish. (Lao Tse)
If you are fair, you will be an example to follow.
42. Anyone who knows a bit of history knows that progress would be impossible without the female figure. (Karl Marx)
Women have been a fundamental figure in all the important events that have existed and that will exist.
43. The desired equality cannot exist in society, as it does not exist in nature.
Nature also deserves respect.
44. The level of civilization that various human societies have reached is in proportion to the independence that women have enjoyed. (Flora Tristan)
Women have been a fundamental figure in society.
45. Not all citizens of a state can be equally powerful, but they should be just as free. (Voltaire)
Freedom is more important than power.
46. Gender inequality diminishes the ability to see the other as similar.
Inequality allows people to be seen as inferior.
47. If there is no coffee for everyone, there will be no one for anyone. (Ernesto 'Che' Guevara)
It refers to the fact that we should all have the same rights.
48. The good of the many is preferable to the opulence of the few. (Jose Marti)
We should all have the same chances.
49. I am a woman and I write. I am a commoner and I can read. I was born a servant and I am free. I have seen wonderful things in my life. I have done wonderful things in my life. (Rosa Montero)
Neither gender nor social classes are excuses for not fighting for what you want.
50. Privilege is the greatest enemy of law. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Having privileges leads to believing yourself superior.
51. When women have power, they vastly improve the lives of everyone around them. (Prince Harry of England)
Words that enhance the power of the female figure.
52. Let each man recognize his neighbor as his equal to his by nature. The violation of this precept is pride. (Thomas Hobbes)
Pride prevents recognizing the equality of people.
53. Equality is a vital need of the human soul. (Simone Weil)
The human being needs to be recognized for his equality.
54. The test of bravery comes when we are in the minority. The tolerance test comes when we are in the majority. (Ralph W. Sockman)
Tolerance and courage are learned by living with other people.
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55. Marriage should be open to any adult couple who want to enter into that contract, regardless of their sexual orientation. It is a matter of equal civil rights. (Judith Butler)
Love knows no sexual orientation.
56. What greater happiness or what greater glory than that of belonging to a country where the laws, equity and the judgment of public opinion are respected! (Francisco de Paula Santander)
Having a country where respect and justice is its flag is a place where it is worth living.
57. Ethics and fairness are the principles of justice that do not change with the calendar. (D. H. Lawrence)
Having impeccable conduct and being fair is something that does not have an expiration date.
58. The absence of surprise gives us confidence, we are on the way to a well-being distributed with equity. (Margaret Mazzantini)
Surprises are not always pleasant.
59. It is necessary to go from a society of production of material products to another type of society of support of all life, and the production of human values that can be shared by all, because the Earth is of everybody. (Leonardo Buff)
Teaching values is what will allow us to have a planet to live on.
60. Democracy bears the most beautiful name that exists: Equality. (Herodotus)
Within democracy everything is possible.
61. There are few righteous people because there are few people willing to give each one his due. (Ricardo García Damborenea)
Giving people their due, allows to have a more just and balanced society.
62. Each one loves hers just like hers, and feels his good and bad hers.
Each person has someone to love.
63. There is a plan and a purpose, a value in all life, whatever its location, age, gender or disability. (Sharron Angle)
We were all born with a purpose to fulfill.
64. The same amount of respect and attention is due to every human being, because the human being has no degrees. (Simone Weil)
No one can be considered superior.
65. All peoples of the earth are equal from birth, all peoples have the right to live, to be free and happy. (Ho Chi Minh)
Humanity was born to be free.
66. Equality is the soul of freedom; in fact, there is no freedom without it. (Frances Wright)
Without freedom there is no equality and vice versa.
67. Labeling gender-based violence as a 'women's issue' is part of the problem. Give huge numbers of men the perfect excuse not to pay attention. (Jackson Katz)
The man and the woman are part of a whole, both must work together.
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68. It is time for us to view genders as a spectrum rather than two opposing ideals.
The subject of gender is a taboo in many societies.
69. As soon as woman is granted equality with man, she becomes superior to him. (Margaret Thatcher)
Women have been classified with a degree of superiority more than men.
70. The two sexes are not superior or inferior to each other. They are simply different. (Gregorio Marañón)
Men and women are different, but with the same rights.
71. The bravest act is to think for yourself. Aloud. (Coco Chanel)
It is always important to raise your voice for what is unfair.
72. Well-behaved women rarely make history. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
It is the women who have fought for a just cause that have stood out.
73. Equality towards women is progress for all. (Ban Ki-moon)
Increasingly, women have managed to fill positions that were only the province of men.
74. I want for myself what I want for other women: absolute equality. (Agnes Macphail)
We must fight to achieve equality for women.
75. Equality between men and women will be achieved when a woman with a hollow head can go as far as a man with the same characteristic. (Estella E. Ramey)
There are women with few qualities who can go far.
76. The longer we live, the more we realize that we are like other people. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
We all age in the same way.
77. Death, fire, and robbery make all men the same. (Charles Dickens)
Death is the destiny that we all have, regardless of race, skin color, sexual preference or religion.
78. Through work, women have been able to bridge the distance that separates them from men. (Simone de Beauvoir)
The woman through struggle and effort has been able to keep up with the man.
79. The law must be like death, which does not exempt anyone. (Montesquieu)
Laws should be for everyone.
80. It is always more valuable to have respect than the admiration of people. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
It is better to be respected than admired.
81. Treat the little ones as you would like to be treated by the big ones. (Spanish proverb)
Everyone must be treated the same.
82. Equality implies individuality. (Trey Anastasio)
Having a strong personality is what leads to equality.
83. Whatever freedom we fight for, it must be a freedom based on equality. (Judith Butler)
The freedom that equality involves is what is worth it.
84. Work is the only thing that can guarantee you complete freedom. (Simone de Beauvoir)
Hard work is what guarantees full freedom.
85. It is fear that makes us lose our consciousness. It is also what makes us a coward. (Marjane Satrapi)
Fear prevents us from achieving the goal.
86. The soul has no gender. (Anonymous)
In the heart there is no difference.
87. Wherever someone fights for his dignity, for equality, to be free... look him in the eye. (Bruce Springsteen)
Whoever fights for rights and equality deserves all our respect.
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88. I call myself a 'feminist man'. Isn't that what someone who fights for women's rights is called? (Dalai Lama)
Men must also fight for women's rights.
89. The saddest thing a woman can do is play dumb to make a man like her. (Emma Watson)
A woman should never denigrate herself to get a man's attention.
90. The test of whether you can do a job or not should not depend on the organization of your chromosomes. (Bella Abzug)
Job discrimination against women is unfortunately part of life.
