Quotes About Equality

He has dark skin," she said to Rux, jumping right to her point, "because God is an astounding artist, and like you, he loves to paint with many different colors.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

there is a declaration in our sacred texts that reads 'Vasudhaiva kutumbakam,' which means 'The whole world is a family.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything ' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

The enemy perhaps may challenge my sex for that I am a woman - so may I likewise challenge them, for they are but men.

I love peace, but it is because I love justice and not because I am afraid of war

We do not set greed against greed or hatred against hatred," he thundered. "Our creed is one that bids us to be just to all, to feel sympathy for all, and to strive for an understanding of the needs of all. Our purpose is to smite down wrong.

There is no horizontal Stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our Stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls. JAMES A. GARFIELD

Picture the person who intimidates you most. Now picture them crouched like a dog, pooping on the sidewalk, looking up at you, all vulnerable. We all poop. Maybe not on the sidewalk, but nobody is better than you and don't let them think they are for a minute.

your success doesn't depend upon the failure of others

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

autograph for a fan, he mused, "You know, I was reading the Gettysburg Address the other day, and that guy was really onto something.

The whole damn thing started when they gave women the vote.

When Gertrude Ederle struck out from France she left behind her a world which has believed for a great many centuries that woman is the weaker vessel. Much of government, most of law and practically all of morality is based upon this assumption. And when her toes touched the sands of England, she stepped out of the water into a brand-new world. It may be that she will turn out to be an even greater discoverer than Columbus. It was only a continent which he found.

Clouds are the most egalitarian of nature's displays, since each one of us has a good view of them, so it really doesn't matter where you are.

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

Entanglement begins the moment you step out of an equal relationship with your partner and become an advocate for your victimhood.

Lama Tenzing, we are all equal beings in the universe," he'd told me more than once. "If you hold others in the thought that they are victims, you rob them of their power. If you hold others as fully responsible for their own destiny, you ennoble them by treating them as equals.