Quotes About Equality

There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights.

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.

To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights.

Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.

Race doesn't matter to the people who are violating our constitutional principles, but they make it matter to keep us divided.

It was an egregious violation of the American Constitution. We were innocent American citizens, and we were imprisoned simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. It shows us just how fragile our Constitution is.

My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.

Stop and frisk - whether done while walking down the street or while driving a car - is a civil rights violation.

I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper.

Our communities will become more - not less - dangerous when local police officers are pulled from their duties to arrest otherwise law-abiding maids, busboys, and day laborers for immigration violations.

Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Democracy in Myanmar cannot be achieved with discrimination and gross violations of human rights.

Look, I support gay marriage from a policy/voting booth perspective. I also happen to think that gay marriage bans like Prop 8 are violations of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause. And I suspect including gay marriage under the umbrella of 'marriage' will strengthen families.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Violence is the language of the unheard.