Quotes About Equality

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power." —MARK ZUCKERBERG

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

It will also challenge attitudes that subjugate women in ways that he himself clearly and consistently redressed.

In your life, I hope you will never oppress the Weak, that you will oppose Human Bondage in all its guises, that you will bend your Knee to no man.

Until that night, the well-fed, respectable whites had convinced themselves that slaves loved being slaves.

Besides, skin color was skin color, right? It was just the color of your goddamned skin. There was nothing anybody could do about that. You were born with it. Like some people were born with big feet or blue eyes. You didn't make the choice. Your parents did. Or God did.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

The world is like a seesaw out of balance: on one side is a box of big rocks, tilting it its way. On the other side is a box, and a bunch of us with teaspoons, adding a little sand at a time. One day, all of our teaspoons will add up, and the whole thing will tip, and people will say, 'How did it happen so fast?

There is hope for all the colored people in this country while one white woman can love one colored man.

Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.

I like it! I liked it when man to man no matter whether he is boss or he is ordinary worker, but in meantime they go to the pub, they drink beer together and call by first name. I like that. After few years, I think that Queensland is the best place in Australia … I am Queenslander! – Alex Sucharsky, Ukranian

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

Would you rather have the lords and nobles back? What is Democracy for? Not so we can rob each other. Or cheat.' I said cheat and felt the teeth in it, the cleat, the cut, the eat.

Her eyes gleamed as bright with genius as any worthy man's

Roman citizenship became universal when it was no longer a privilege but a burden

Global warming, police brutality, voter suppression, racism. In his hands, weighty considerations escaped the pull of gravity. Damn, what a show!

Right, wrong—those are words thrown around by those what is in power in order to sit on the backs of those what ain't.

But I made an issue of the precise wording of the vows. I wanted liberalized ones, with no outmoded Pauline nonsense exacting from the bride the promise to 'obey' the groom. Here I put my foot down, rather in the manner of a husband determined to show at the outset who was boss. 'I'll have no obedience around here!' I said, banging the table. 'Is that clear?' 'Is it an order?' 'Yes.

One is not entitled to contempt for something to which one is not equal.

Make no mistake about this: destroy the liberty of the least among us and you destroy the principle that guarantees liberty to all.

To love as God loves means loving not just others like us, but those who are not.