Quotes About Equality

Hierarchy can work, except when those in leadership positions hold power over others—when their decisions benefit the minority and oppress the majority.

Nora is home in herself at last. She has won. And as Janet listens and watches, and knows that her work here is complete, she rejoices. This is what it's all about. This is the goal. This is the reward. They hold each other's eyes. No longer doctor and patient, but just two women, equals.

all men, just of different cultures, wearing different uniforms, having different-coloured skins perhaps, but simply men nevertheless

admiration —and surprise. It was nearly unheard of for a woman to hold property, he knew, even a woman of her rank and independence. "And you feel

Love has no colour, love has no gender, it is found everywhere and anywhere, only when accepted.

what we believe about God will tell us what we believe about people; and what we believe about people will tell us what kinds of communities and societies we believe we should strive to create.

the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery also managed to perpetuate the fatal compromise of the Constitution, which had counted the slave as only three-fifths of a person, and that is no person at all.

The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.

My message, unchanged for more than fifty years, is this: God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there.

With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

if we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well. And I end by challenging people to ask themselves whether we can continue to allow the government, subject as it is to every imaginable form of inefficiency and corruption, to have such power to kill. (p. 130)

If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.

I'm taking a fresh look at the American Dream and who gets to live it and who doesn't.

She filled my head with dreams, telling me I could become anything I wanted. I believed her so much I thought I could be white.

Before bed each night, I reread my notes and studied the Bible, savoring its rich lessons. Right there in bold print, for anyone to read, was the message of love. God treasured all his children equally, regardless of gender. For the first time in my life, I was truly content simply being a person, not a wife, not a mother, not a woman. A person.

Er zal pas sprake zijn van emancipatie, wanneer het niet meer kan gebeuren dat mensen (mannen noch vrouwen) object zijn van begeerte-zonder-genegenheid of van gevoel-zonder-inzicht, van welke benadering dan ook zonder respect voor de persoon.

Een panter is anders dan een aap', zei Gerard, na een pauze, 'maar is een van de twee minder dan de ander? Dat vind je een idiote vraag, en je hebt gelijk. Blijf dat nou net zo idioot vinden, wanneer het mensen betreft. Anders zijn - dat is gewoon. Iedereen is anders dan een ander. Ik ben ook anders dan jij. Maar minder of meer zijn door de kleur van je gezicht of door wat je vader is - dat is nonsens.

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

Sorrow and respect didn't follow a colour scheme.

Today there is still a battle going on between those who carry sacks of cement, and those who place them on their women's heads.

A dead black man—nothing to bother about.