Quotes About Equality

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Be a leader, not a superior.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.'

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

Accomplishments have no color.

In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.