Equality

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.

—Malcolm X

The equality of the capitalist and the laborer is the same as the equality of two fighters, when the hands of one are bound, while a gun is put into the hands of the other, and equal conditions are strictly observed for both in the fight.

—Leo Tolstoy

Most of us continue to work for wages in a highly unequal social system that denies us meaningful work and a decent return for our labor. That simple fact defines a set of common interests of immense democratic potential.

—Charles Bergquist

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

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

—Aldous Huxley

We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

—Louis D. Brandeis

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person and learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people.

—Eduardo Galeano

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

—Catherine Deneuve

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.

—Italian proverb

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

—Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

—Laurence J. Peter

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

—Lionel Trilling

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

—Joan Rivers

All men are equal before fish.

—Herbert Hoover