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Quotes About Equality

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.
~ Kara Walker
It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
~ Pope Leo XIII
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity
~ Nelson Mandela
Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.
~ Sister Souljah
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
~ Honore de Balzac
Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
~ Jesse Jackson
We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.
~ Paul Robeson
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.
~ Bryan Stevenson
When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.
~ John Legend
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy
~ Barack Obama
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.
~ Ruth Benedict
Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
~ Thomas Sowell
The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.
~ James Lee Burke
Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.
~ George H. W. Bush
I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power
~ Narendra Modi
I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education's power to transform lives.
~ Shakira
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.
~ Bayard Rustin
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
~ Thomas Paine
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.
~ Nelson Mandela
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
~ Khalil Gibran
Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
~ Pope Leo XIII