All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact
Honore de Balzac
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.
Ninon de L'Enclos
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Voltaire
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
The sole equality on earth is death
Philip James Bailey
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism
Barry Goldwater
Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
Sir Isaiah Berlin
We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
Barbara Levy Boxer
In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Choose equality.
Matthew Arnold
Your grand-father taught me the politics of pride, your grandmother taught me the politics of poverty. I am beholden to both for the fine synthesis. To you, my darling daughter, I give only one message. It is the message of the morrow, the message of history. Believe only in the people, work only for their emancipation and equality. The paradise of God lies under the feet of your mother. The paradise of politics lies under the feet of the people.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
It is surely worse in this, that here, in one sense, it never can end. An African slave, even when made free, supposing him to be possessed even of talents and of virtue, can never, in these colonies, be quite on terms of equality with a free white man.
Jonathan Boucher
What is deeply distressing is the incredible number of people who are vehemently opposed to equality, and the need for them to deny gay rights simply because they cannot bear the thought of gays having rights.
Moran Margaret Cho