Quotes About Equality

What is known to be tyranny to the superior man may appear to be justice to the ordinary one.

Lo que es conocido como tiranía por el hombre superior puede parecer justicia para el hombre ordinario.

Dicho del Profeta Mujeres Las mujeres son la mitad gemela de los hombres.

Un día todos vestiremos una prenda que no tiene bolsillos…

A yellow dog is brother to the jackal.

At His door, what is the difference between Muslim and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.

Un perro amarillo es hermano del chacal.

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain — the equality of all men.

A woman, though she is a queen, is meant by God to be instructed by her husband." It is the bishop of Orange who says this, and she smiles and imagines cleaving him with a sword, right through his skull to his breastbone

You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*, [she points to a daisy] Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*. [she gestures to a field of daisies]

Still, I believe that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who know they are this"—she held the daisy in her hand—"yet let themselves be treated as that

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?

I've learned a simple and obvious truth from my own education experience: We have to give every kid in America the access to public education that I received. We need to place public education at the top of our priorities and the center of our national

But the wonderful thing about our democratic system is that anyone can jump in regardless of qualifications and present himself or herself to the American people, whether you are a former general, a former politician, a fool, or whatever. Quoted in The NPR Interviews 1996, edited by Robert Siegal

Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath.

We are all the same inside. We have the same heartaches and joys, the same fears and ambitions. Money doesn't change who we are.

Chloe wasn't a defect. I refuse to ever look at my child that way . . . or allow anyone else in my presence to do so.

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.

You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other.