Quotes About Equality

Deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

Facts, like people, want to be free — and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

America is not just a country. It's an idea.

Sexist leaders who do not respect the God-given gifts of women and who may even relate to them inappropriately have forsaken their ambassadorial calling.

That's the greatest thing about wikis: they combine the best features of democracy and autocracy. Everybody has an equal say. But some got bigger says than others.

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

We found that the self-affirmation writing task improved maths performance for free-school-meal students only, closing the existing achievement gap between these two groups by 50 per cent over the course of the year.

As a politician, if you are really interested in tackling inequality to ensure that as many people as possible have 'just enough', then you need to ensure that the rich stop using, as Stiglitz puts it, 'their political influence to cut taxes and curtail government spending'.

The more people are convinced by the 'just enough' approach, the more likely they will be to limit their material consumption, and favour redistributing resources away from those with more than enough towards those with little.

When our opposition to those we have judged to be the oppressors is so animated by wisdom and compassion, our opposition to what they are doing will always contain an option for their wellbeing. So a preferential option for the poor is also always part of an option for the oppressors. We are also seeking to promote the wellbeing of the oppressors, their happiness, their peace.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

Girls' education, it turns out, has a dramatic bearing on global warming. Women with more years of education have fewer, healthier children and actively manage their reproductive health.

Intelligence has many shades, but rage is the same colour everywhere. Humiliation tastes the same to everyone.

quem dividisse o que houvesse para comer teria de ficar com a parte mais pequena, reveladora de um compreensão da natureza humana que, se tivesse sido aplicada a muitas outras coisas mais importantes, teria transformado a história do mundo.

mean proportional, i.e., if b and c are two given positive numbers, then x is the mean proportional of b and c if it satisfies the statement "b is to x as x is to c." Or, in algebra which