Quotes About Equality

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right, there is no love. There is only masked fear.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important.'