“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”
Frederick Douglass
FreedomDignity
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.
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
Frederick Douglass
DignityInner Strength
“Men are so constituted that they derive their conviction of their own possibilities largely from the estimate formed of them by others.”
Frederick Douglass
BeliefOpportunity
“Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.”
Sojourner Truth
FaithHumanity
“Independence is happiness.”
Susan B. Anthony
IndependenceWomen's Rights
“I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”
Susan B. Anthony
PrejudiceWit
“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
CourageTruth
“Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
TruthIntegrity
“In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.”
Lucretia Mott
MarriagePartnership
“In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.”
Lucy Stone
Women's RightsActivism
“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
RespectWomen's Rights
“The moral regeneration of mankind will only really commence, when the most fundamental of the social relations is placed under the rule of equal justice.”
John Stuart Mill
Gender EqualityJustice
“Is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?”
Harriet Martineau
Women's RightsHypocrisy
“If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion.”
Abigail Adams
Women's RightsDetermination
“You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs.”
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Racial JusticeWomen's Rights
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
Economic JusticeRacial Equality
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”
Anna Julia Cooper
FreedomHumanity
“We wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes.”
Paul Laurence Dunbar
IdentityStruggle
“Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of Liberty.”
James Weldon Johnson
LibertyHope
“I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, and I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man.”
Walt Whitman
Gender EqualityRespect
“The eighteenth century proclaimed the rights of man; the nineteenth will proclaim the rights of woman.”
Victor Hugo
Women's RightsProgress
“I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are - or, at all events, that I must try and become one.”
Henrik Ibsen
Women's IndependenceSelf-Worth
“Men of England, wherefore plough for the lords who lay ye low?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Workers' RightsInjustice
“In every voice, in every ban, the mind-forg'd manacles I hear.”
William Blake
OppressionMindset
“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Charles Dickens
PovertySatire