“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
Frederick Douglass
ResistanceOppression
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.
“Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.”
Susan B. Anthony
ActivismWomen's Rights
“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”
Susan B. Anthony
ResistanceFaith
“The true woman is as yet a dream of the future.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's RightsFuture
“I ask no monument, proud and high, to arrest the gaze of the passers-by; all that my yearning spirit craves, is bury me not in a land of slaves.”
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
FreedomLegacy
“How does it feel to be a problem?”
W. E. B. Du Bois
Racial JusticeIdentity
“We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil and social.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
Civil RightsEqual Rights
“Lifting as we climb.”
Mary Church Terrell
UpliftSolidarity
“Up, you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will.”
Marcus Garvey
EmpowermentPride
“Humanity recognizes no sex; virtue recognizes no sex; mind recognizes no sex.”
Ernestine Rose
Gender EqualityHumanity
“We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.”
Emmeline Pankhurst
Voting RightsWomen's Rights
“Deeds, not words.”
Emmeline Pankhurst
ActionSuffrage
“Courage calls to courage everywhere.”
Millicent Fawcett
CourageWomen's Rights
“When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today.”
Sarojini Naidu
ResistanceSelf-Respect
“I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him.”
Leo Tolstoy
PrivilegeHypocrisy
“The degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night.”
Victor Hugo
PovertySocial Justice
“When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy, then may that country boast of its constitution and its government.”
Thomas Paine
PovertyGood Government
“It is precisely because the force of circumstances tends continually to destroy equality that the force of legislation should always tend to its maintenance.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
LawFairness
“What is a Roman knight, or a freedman's son, or a slave? They are mere titles, born of ambition or of wrong.”
Seneca
StatusHuman Worth
“O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”
William Shakespeare
PowerJustice
“For he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition.”
William Shakespeare
BrotherhoodClass
“Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!”
Robert Burns
InjusticeCompassion
“When my mother died I was very young, and my father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!”
William Blake
Child LabourInjustice
“Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, ere the sorrow comes with years?”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Child LabourCompassion
“It is not linen you're wearing out, but human creatures' lives!”
Thomas Hood
Workers' RightsExploitation