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Quotes About Equality

Human dignity should be without borders.
~ Unknown
Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.
~ Bhagat Puran Singh
It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.
~ Khem Veasna
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
~ Herman Melville
Treat people with dignity and respect.
~ Michelle Obama
The demeaning of dignity is almost the only reason for a fight.
~ Simon Soloveychik
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.
~ Nelson Mandela
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.
~ Kim Dae-jung
Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
~ Kjell Magne Bondevik
We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
~ Dominique de Menil
The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.
~ Unknown
All people have dignity. Theres nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
~ Binyavanga Wainaina
Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
~ Rosa Parks
In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.
~ Tania Bruguera
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
~ Carol Bellamy
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
~ Michael Jackson
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
~ Bono
But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.
~ William Shakespeare
Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.
~ Pope Francis
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
~ Livy
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
~ Sinclair Lewis
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
~ Ahmet Ertegun
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
~ Cesar Chavez