Quotes About Equality

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. —John F. Kennedy

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.

The equal and sustainable right of access to the Earth's bounty seems one of the most transcendent truths a human being can contemplate. Yet, this right is missing from the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The fact that this single principle is violated on an ongoing basis is quite possibly the root cause of many, if not most, other human rights violations.

I think it's a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world. On the one hand, we're all equal; on the other hand, everyone's a superstar. It's all very irrational, like all ideology.

I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..

To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most of her potential.

1). When there is enough for all, all should have enough 2). Truths pose as facts with meaning 3). How you act is who you are 4). We are all atheists, we are all believers 5). The meaning of life is found in the attempt to turn our truths into facts 6). Culture is the immortalization of individuality

The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.

Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.

Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich.

It makes a difference whose ox is gored.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressor

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

A unjust law, is no law at all.

Although we are all equally priests, we cannot all publicly minister and teach.

We also know that God is no respecter of persons. A plain factory hand who does his work faithfully pleases God just as much as a minister of the Word.

All Believers are Priests

Here we must first of all resist all wrong, where truth or righteousness suffers violence or need, and dare make no distinction of persons, as some do, who fight most actively and busily against the wrong which is done to the rich, the powerful, and their own friends; but when it is done to the poor, or the despised or their own enemy, they are quiet and patient.

For example, imagine that two people each have a hundred dollars. One person carries it in a paper bag. The other keeps it in an iron chest. Both have the same treasure no matter where they put it. Similarly, we all have the same Christ. It doesn't matter if one person has a stronger or weaker faith than another. Both of them still believe in the same Christ and have everything through him.

It is not fitting that one man should live in idleness on another's labor, or be rich and live comfortably at the cost of another's hardship

The Lord is our glory. Such gifts as we possess we acknowledge to be the gifts of God, given to us for the good of the Church of Christ. Therefore we are not proud because of them. We know that more is required of them to whom much is given, than of such to whom little is given. We also know that God is no respecter of persons. A plain factory hand who does his work faithfully pleases God just as much as a minister of the Word.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir . . . America has defaulted on this promissory note in so far as her citizens of color are concerned.