Equal Society Quotes

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

… in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labor.

The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Economic development cannot take a nation forward on its own. We need a society and economy which complement each other. We need to take care of the poor, deprived and left behind sections of society.

Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage, a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society, raising the living standards and well-being of all.

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.

We need to aim to get rid of food banks altogether, and replace charitable intervention with a fairer, more equal society.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom for us to be black, or brown, and you to be white, and yet live together in a free and equal society. This is the only way that integration can bring dignity for both of us.

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

Just and equal society could be made by drastically improving the condition of India's public schools.

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.

Throughout my career I've fought for the rights of women as full and equal members of society.

I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal - that is not a new idea.

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

Adults need to live in a society that is economically social, governmentally democratic, and culturally free.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.