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Quotes About Equality

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
Our goal is to make it easier for everyone to do better.
~ Hillary Clinton
Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.
~ Barack Obama
Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every woman I know in the broadcast business worked hard so we can talk about sports, not talk about us talking about sports. Ultimately, that's the goal. When the game starts, it's just a game.
~ Beth Mowins
The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.
~ Evo Morales
We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American . . . we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.
~ William J. Clinton
We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.
~ Lindsey Graham
The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same.
~ Manmohan Singh
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
~ Malcolm X
My goal is to show girls that I'm fighting so they don't have to, so they don't have to fight the same battles, so they don't have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.
~ Alex Morgan
It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.
~ Akshay Kumar
I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.
~ Pat Conroy, South of Broad
God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.
~ Francis of Assisi
I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.
~ Jose Rizal
The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~ Clarence Darrow
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
~ Phyllis McGinley
In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too.
~ Kirsten Dunst
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
~ Pierre de Coubertin
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
~ Margaret Mead
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
~ Bruce Barton