“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.” Tennesse Claflin

“Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.” Yiddish Proverb

“I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute quality.” Anges Macphail

“Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it.” Confucius

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

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” Aristotle

“Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior.” Socrates

“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

“Men are born equal but they are also born different.” Erich Fromm

“The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.” John Fischer

“Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.” Plato

“The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” Martin Luther King Jr

“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.” Thomas Jefferson

“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.” Confucius

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

“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

“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions, it only guarantees equality of opportunity.” Irving Kristol

“Deep down, beneath all our insecurities, beneath all our hopes for and beliefs in equality, each of us believes we’re better than anyone else. Because it’s our beliefs that are right, our doubts that are allowable ones, our fears which are legitimate.” Audrey Beth Stein

“People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.” Linda Ellerbee

“The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.” Thomas Jefferson

“Equality is the sould of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.” Frances Wright

“We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.” Eva Burrows

“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

“Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.” Albert Einstein

“More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development.” Kofi Annan

“Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.” Tom Robbins

“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

“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.” David Alland Coe