Quotes About Equality

am I inferior simply because I am not English born? Am I to be a slave because I am an Indian?

Churchill could not become Gandhi's idol, for the premier did not accept Indians as equals or as being worthy of independence

Rule Punjab and the rest of India as a superior race, dismissing any notion of equality between rulers and subjects

The strategy of providing quality while refusing equality was vulnerable.

Caste taboos had been broken, and a measure of equality introduced. But they had also become a distinct community, which for writing used a new script called

Ambedkar said he had been 'surprised, immensely surprised' to find 'so much in common' between Gandhi and himself. 'If you devoted yourself entirely to the welfare of the Depressed Classes', Ambedkar said to Gandhi, 'you would become our hero'.

Muslim preponderance in the police and the army' would be hit.

one who breaks an unjust law, must do it openly and lovingly

a minority community would have 'weightage', i.e. a representation larger than what the population ratio warranted

Like Guru Nanak after him, Baba Farid suggested that at a basic level a Muslim and a Hindu were the same, sharing the joy and pain of being human.

Solidarity forever!For the union makes us strong.

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.

One is respected in a community to the extent, and only to the extent, that he or she respects his own position in life. There are doctors, lawyers, and even clergymen who are a disgrace to humanity, and the disciples of Christ were lowly fishermen. I would not, for all the world, have any one of you children grow up to feel that you were less than equal in every way to any other human being who walks the face of the earth.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

A society with more justice needs less charity.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

God said, I am tired of kings,I suffer them no more;Up to my ear the morning bringsThe outrage of the poor.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

As to what are called the masses, and common men—there are no common men. All men are at last of a size.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.