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Quotes About Equality

As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
~ Kerry Washington
If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means
~ Walter Rodney
All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.
~ Baha'u'llah
In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future - for everyone.
~ Salma Hayek
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.
~ James A. Baldwin
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
~ Simon Wiesenthal
To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
~ Desmond Tutu
I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.
~ Immanuel Kant
Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
~ Nelson Mandela
We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.
~ Marc Lamont Hill
Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.
~ Lech Walesa
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
~ Elie Wiesel
The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.
~ Lactantius
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
~ Debbie Harry
Difference is of the essence of humanity.
~ John Hume
Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.
~ Noel Ignatiev
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
~ Hakim Bey
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
~ Peace Pilgrim
The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity...
~ Manfred Max Neef
Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.
~ Gustav Landauer