Quotes About Equality

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

A country should be judged by how it treats its minorities. To the extent it protect them, it stands for the ennobling values of empathy and compassion, for justice rooted, not in might, but in human equality, and for civilization instead of savagery.

Civilizations are illusions, but these illusions are pervasive, dangerous, and powerful. They contribute to globalization's brutality. They allow us, for example, to say that we believe in global free markets and, in the same breath, to discount as impossible the global free movement of labor; to claim that we believe in democracy and human equality, and yet to stymie the creation of global institutions based on one-person-one-vote and equality before the law.

The most important thing to keep in mind is not that we are all the same, but that we are all equally weird.

The privileged liberal position: "There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all

a white man had indeed shot a dark man, but also that the dark man and the white man were the same.

the streets] enforce the ancient hierarchy that comes to us from the countryside: the superiority of the mounted man over the man on foot. But here [...] it is the man with four wheels who is forced to dismount and become part of the crowd

ambitious cleric position: "Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says.

Human beings don't necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered, or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

The only problem was, the founders left a lot of people out of the Constitution. They left out poor people and black people and female people. It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. And it still goes on today.

Until June 26, 1918, all Texans could vote except "idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women.

Women are not wrong at all when they reject the rules of life that have been introduced into the world, inasmuch as it is the men who have made these without them. There is a natural plotting and scheming between them and us.

It was possible in this wonderful city for that nameless little boy -for any of its millions- to have a decent chance to scale the walls and achieve what they wished. Wealth, rank or an imposing name counted for nothing. The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

For law can be just or unjust. Dr. Huey P. Newton said, "The law must serve men; not men serve the law." John Africa, founder of the MOVE Organization, said, "Just because it's legal doesn't make it right.

One of my Black ancestors was photographed carrying diapers over his head after a flood. They called him a 'looter.' A white man was photographed doing the same thing. They called him a 'survivor.

And so, in the end, it is simply impossible to choose one woman over another. That is how it is with them: each is bound to be trying, one way or another.

I'm not saying anything against the Modern side. Modern and Classical, they are equal, and each provides for a function in life. You must make  your free choice. Not everyone is capable of a Classical education. You must make your choice quite freely.

But those of Miss Brodie's kind were great talkers and feminists and, like most feminists, talked to men as man?to?man. 

As you would want people to think about you, think you about them in like manner.

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone.

God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.