Quotes About Equality

And isn't that the moral of the story anyhow? You can't judge a person by their language or their place of origin—though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.

But the forest knew no difference when it came to race, religion, or gender; it smiled and frowned upon all of them in equal measure, sometimes providing protection, sometimes peril. "By the grace of God, may we all be vanishing stars.

The thing is, not every happily ever after needs to end with a Prince Charming

It is mankind that creates the differences, she'd told me last week. That does not mean it is not all the same God.

But God believes in you, my dear," Sister Maria Andrzeja replied immediately. She looked up and held Yona's gaze. "And that makes us all the same, all over the world.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

Riding sidesaddle is not truly riding. It's ridiculous, is what it is.

Une société qui se serait emparé de toute la richesse sociale et qui aura hautement proclamée que "tous" ont droit à cette richesse, - quelle que fut la part qu'ils eussent prises antérieurement à la créer, - sera forcée d'abandonner toute idée de salariat, soit en monnaie, soit en bons de travail.

A society to be successful must maintain a balance between nurturing excellence and encouraging the average to improve.

Men should be told that there is no Black and no White, for Black is White and White is Black. So my advice is this: let us not do anything that might hurt anybody anywhere in the world, for we are part of each soul, and each soul is part of us." We sat silent, nonplussed. So this was the heresy of Bab. Suddenly I heard loud sobbing, turned round and saw Asadulla, his face bathed in tears, and distorted with grief.

In America from the late 1960s on, equality came to mean not just that the law should treat everyone identically but that your beliefs about anything are equally as true as anyone else's. As the principle of absolute tolerance became axiomatic in our culture and internalized as part of our psychology—What I believe is true because I want and feel it to be true—individualism turned into rampant solipsism.

less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes.

America from the late 1960s on, equality came to mean not just that the law should treat everyone identically but that your beliefs about anything are equally as true as anyone else's.

I like the comfort in knowing that women are generally superior and naturally less violent than men. I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

I like the comfort in knowing that the Afro American invented rock and roll yet has only been rewarded or awarded for their accomplishments when conforming to the white man's standards. I like the comfort in knowing that the Afro American has once again been the only race that has brought a new form of original music to this decade: hip-hop/rap.

They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.

I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

the flag means a lot of different things to a lot of different folks. But the one thing it should mean for everyone is freedom. Mind, body, and soul. Red, white, and blue. America the beautiful. The greatest love story yet to be. Remember this, love gotta always win, gotta be sincere. Hate that which is evil, and hold fast to everything that is good and righteous, ya hear me?

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. I am human, I think nothing human alien to me.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.