Quotes About Equality

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Democracy is the best revenge.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.