Quotes About Equality

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.