Quotes About Equality

One day I dream that we can grow in a matured society where nobody would be 'normal or abnormal' but just human beings, accepting any other human being -- ready to grow together.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

Every aspect of life should be judged soberly and objectively. To hate someone just because of this or that religious belief, or because the color of his skin is different from yours – this is contrary to sober human logic. It's the person who matters, not his race, religion or color.

I razzisti vanno in Paradiso. Quello dei neri.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

The fight against colonialism is a fight to recognize the universal equality and freedom that colonialism renders invisible. It is not a fight to preserve the particularity of a local culture that European colonialism wiped out.

The universal is what the ruling order doesn't have, not what it does have. In this way, it is always on the side of those fighting on behalf of freedom and equality because they are what is missing, not what is manifested.

An actual turn to universality requires a break from conservatism and even from liberalism.

All social hierarchies depend on our collective belief in them. Simply by collectively disbelieving in someone's importance, we can cause this importance to vanish, which reveals the universal equality that becomes evident through the lack of belonging.

Universals bring us together not by imposing a common structure on us but by revealing that we share what we don't have and can never have. The fact that no one can have a universal—no one possesses freedom or equality—is the source of their emancipatory quality. Universals are not possessions to have or lose or give away. We don't have to be suspicious of the universals because no one can ever impose them on us, even if someone wanted to.

Recognizing the self-division of the other doesn't reduce everyone to sameness but eliminates the possibility for anyone's hierarchical elevation above another. It is a philosophy of universal equality through the split of every subject from itself.

if we are going to continue to be proud that we are Americans, there must be no weakening of the code by which we have lived; by the right to meet your accuser face to face, if you have one; by your right to go to the church or the synagogue or even the mosque of your own choosing; by your right to speak your mind and be protected in it. Ladies and gentlemen, the things that make us proud to be Americans are the soul and the spirit.

Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.

But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest

mas a maioria das pessoas também não entenderia. Estar casado com alguém, não lhe faz dono daquela pessoa, não somos objetos de posse de ninguém. O amor está acima de qualquer casinho de prazer.

The man who judges two equally brutal oppressors to be different, merely because they wear different faces, does not deserve freedom from oppression".–Pablo Sanchez, The Winter of Nations, 1851

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Education is the foundation of a better society, one that values diversity, critical thinking, and a commitment to social justice.

I think the greatest legacy of the civil rights movement is that it made America a better place for all of us, regardless of race or ethnicity.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves.

I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.