Quotes About Equality

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

at no time in my life have I been a person to hold myself polluted by the touch or approach of any creature that wore a human shape: on the contrary, from my very earliest youth it has been my pride to converse familiarly, more Socratico, with all human beings, man, woman, and child, that chance might fling my way; a practice …. which becomes a man who would be a philosopher.

For a philosopher should not see in the eyes of the poor limitary creature calling himself a man of the world, and filled with the narrow and self-regarding prejudices of birth and education, but should look upon himself as a Catholic creature, and as standing in an equal relation to high and low - to educated and uneducated, to the guilty and the innocent.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

My mom had a sense that... there are always these barriers up for certain groups of people. That's always been core to how I understand the world and navigate it.

There's a lot of racism when I was in the Navy, and I had to deal with that.

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford to drive to the nearest city.

For many years I had been aware that women were not only most important creations in the universe, but the nearest approach that man could reach to the divine.

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

You may have the might, but that does not necessarily make you right.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

As far as same-sex marriage, I really would want to think about that a lot more given the fact that my focus would be always on the child. The innocent should not be given more even burdens than what is absolutely necessary.

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.