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Quotes About Equality

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
~ Montesquieu
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
~ Frederick Douglass
If we don't center the voices of marginalized people, we're doing the wrong work.
~ Tarana Burke
You see, feminists don't really like to define the Patriarchy. They prefer to keep it nebulous and amorphous so they can conveniently blame it for everything that goes wrong in their lives. Not being paid enough? Patriarchy! Not getting a promotion? Patriarchy! Too many catcalls? Patriarchy! Too few catcalls? Patriarchy!
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
~ Warren E. Burger
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
~ Samuel Gompers
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.
~ Muhammad Ali
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?
~ Thomas Sowell
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
~ Frederick Douglass
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.
~ Charles Glover Barkla
We're not ashamed of the old stuff, but when you look back at the posters it does make you think: 'My God, six men and one woman.' Weirdly we didn't say 'that's wrong' and no one else did, either. It's been a really quick shift in the landscape of telly, which is brilliant.
~ Alex Horne
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.
~ Rebecca Lobo
I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
~ Alan Dershowitz
Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?
~ Richard Trumka
I like the back country, wildlife and all of that, but it's wrong to force poor people to live that way.
~ Norman Borlaug
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
~ Tammy Bruce
There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.
~ Gail Collins
There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex.
~ Elton John
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
~ Abdullah II of Jordan
'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.
~ Dee Dee Myers
If you're quiet, knowing that there's a culture of racism inside most police departments, and you're not saying anything, you are on the wrong side of history.
~ Alicia Garza