Quotes About Equality

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

America is built on the labors of the oppressed.

If you have a more oppressed Internet, you have a more oppressed society.

It's not enough to just say 'I'm not racist' because you're not a purveyor of overt racism. If you benefit from the system, knowing that people are being oppressed and affected by it, then you are racist.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Oppression is not limited to people of color, but if you feel guilty that's something you should confront.

What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation.

Whether it's microaggressions or blatant racism, it's always been a fight. We've been fighting oppression for 400 years and it will continue to be a fight.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.