Quotes About Equality

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

One the reasons I talk about my story is I want other people who are in the circumstances I was in to understand they are just as good and as valuable as everyone else.

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

Money isn't always the measure of how valuable you are to our society.

I spent time in refugee camps in Southeast Asia, and in the projects of Chicago. I've been to State dinners with Presidents. I met the Queen of England on a beach in Anguilla. No one is any more valuable or important than you are. No one is more important than your family and your friends.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

We've done a couple of women's mags, but we tend to talk about feminism and women in the industry, which I feel more comfortable talking about. It's a more valuable discussion than, 'Oh, you're a girl in a band. What hair conditioner do you use?' I use hair conditioner, and I like talking about it. But I don't want that to be the question.

Spent way too many years hating myself, thinking I was less valuable because I was different... which is just untrue.

I strongly believe that education is a human right and that it's extremely valuable, no matter where you live in the world.

I believe that the love of same-sex couples is every bit as valuable as that of opposite-sex couple.

No parent should have to choose between their job and caring for their child, and no person should miss valuable moments with their loved ones because of work.

The invention of council housing originally offered the poor a way of knowing they were valuable. You had security of tenure.

I believe it's our responsibility to show our communities the value of all people, to celebrate different, and to take a stand for acceptance and inclusion.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

All lives have an equal value.

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

My sister is raised to know her value and to know that she stands behind no man. You know, when she gets a husband, you stand side by side, equal partnership. You stand behind no one cause you have to lift each other up. You can't do that if you're 30 percent of the value in your relationship or the household.

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.

Growing up, I learned the value of sticking up for my brown-skinned friends amongst my white-skinned friends.