Quotes About Equality

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

Freedom is a public library.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.