Quotes About Equality

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

Man was not born to a world of justice. But he can create such a world!

If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.

If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

You know, Henry, we're the only people who get born into the enemy camp. I mean, black babies get born into black families, Jewish babies get born into Jewish families, but gay babies, we get born into straight families. How we survive it all is a miracle.

Grief is half of justice," she said, and added, a moment later, "the other half is a hope.

If God meant woman to rule over man, He would have taken her out of Adam's head. Had He designed her to be his slave, He would have taken her out of his feet. But God took woman out of man's side, for He made her to be a helpmate and an equal to him. —Augustine

I'm just as bad at following orders from men.

There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or how powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

I intend to do the same with him that I'd do for you or any other man in this brigade.

Take away the idea of dark times and ruin and you begin to hear other voices. Women were not always silent, or without the power to make choices – we may just have been listening in the wrong places;

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

Dear Woman, Sometimes you'll just be too much woman. Too smart, Too beautiful, Too strong. Too much of something that makes a man feel like less of a man, Which will make you feel like you have to be less of a woman. The biggest mistake you can make Is removing jewels from your crown To make it easier for a man to carry. When this happens, I need you to understand You do not need a smaller crown— You need a man with bigger hands.

THE MORE SHE FOUND HERSELF, THE LESS SHE FELT THE NEED TO FIND A MAN THAT MADE HER FEEL LIKE SHE WAS WORTHY. A MAN'S JOB IS NOT TO GIVE A WOMAN HER CROWN. IT IS ONLY THEIR JOB TO RESPECT IT. (Sign)

New City was the first church I'd ever been to in my twenty-two years as a Christian that had a substantial number of members who were economically poor, who came as full participants rather than objects of charity, who called out to be recognized as eyes or toes or thumbs of the body of Christ rather than simply as folks with empty bowls on the other side of the soup kitchen line.

How did the Barnharts decide how much was enough? Our principle is that the Army cook shouldn't eat a whole lot better than the troops. Those of us who're in a position to generate wealth aren't entitled to a different lifestyle than the rest of the body, the rest of the troops. We may need different tools, just like that cook, but our lives shouldn't be so different.

Why is it that men have pride but women have shame?

Fairness is a hair colour not something to be balanced on a set of scales.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.

Most of our political debates today are conducted in these terms—between those who favour unfettered markets and those who maintain that market choices are free only when they're made on a level playing field, only when the basic terms of social cooperation are fair.

As economist Lawrence Kudlow puts it, "Obama comes from a long line of liberals whose guiding star is the equality of result, i.e., income leveling, rather than the equality of opportunity, which is the heart of free-market capitalism.