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Quotes About Equality

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
~ Maria Shriver
Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.
~ Haruki Murakami
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
~ Langston Hughes
For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.
~ David Boies
I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.
~ Unknown
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
~ Vandana Shiva
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
~ Victor Hugo
There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.
~ Dudley Randall
People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
~ Henry Rollins
The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.
~ Cornel West
President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.
~ Eliot Spitzer
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
~ Anna Quindlen
Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.
~ Melissa Etheridge
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.
~ Tim Cook
People have power and it is very important to respect that. Everybody's had thousands of lifetimes, and who knows what anyone has learned in a lifetime ... respect not fear.
~ Frederick Lenz
Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.
~ Unknown
All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.
~ Jill Stein