“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”
Frederick Douglass
FreedomShared Fate
Equality Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · EQUALITY
Equality Quotes
Read 200 of the best equality quotes about equal rights, justice, women's rights and human dignity, from Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Du Bois and more.
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
Frederick Douglass
JusticeSociety
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Frederick Douglass
ActivismPower
“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”
Sojourner Truth
TruthJustice
“If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
Sojourner Truth
Women's RightsAction
“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”
Susan B. Anthony
Voting RightsWomen's Rights
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.”
Susan B. Anthony
DemocracyEqual Rights
“The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's RightsHistory
“The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's RightsInjustice
“Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.”
Lucretia Mott
ChangePrivilege
“Virtue can only flourish among equals.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
VirtueEquality
“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
Women's EducationEmpowerment
“Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?”
John Stuart Mill
PrivilegePower
“We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.”
Margaret Fuller
OpportunityWomen's Rights
“Let them be sea-captains, if you will.”
Margaret Fuller
Women's CareersEmpowerment
“Whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.”
Angelina Grimké
Gender EqualityMorality
“We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity.”
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Shared HumanityUnity
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
LibertyJustice
“The people must know before they can act.”
Ida B. Wells
AwarenessActivism
“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.”
Booker T. Washington
DignityForgiveness
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
Thomas Paine
Global CitizenshipKindness
“Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.”
Thomas Jefferson
Equal JusticeLaw
“Nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of condition among the people.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
DemocracySociety
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine,' was the real founder of civil society.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
InequalityProperty
“Act so as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.”
Immanuel Kant
Human DignityEthics