Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

Equality is truly sweet.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

I want my people to live like white people and have the same chance… we want to travel the same road as the white man.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

Equity is the only acceptable goal

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.

This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you can't have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way that they are going to get their rights is to go in the street and demonstrate. I think we owe them and we owe ourselves a better country than that.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

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. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people—women as well as men.