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Quotes About Equality

If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending
~ William Loren Katz
I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.
~ Phylicia Rashad
All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.
~ Nelson Mandela
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?
~ Grace Lee Boggs
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.
~ Naveen Andrews
Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
~ Desmond Tutu
We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.
~ John Shelby Spong
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Art should be on the side of humanity.
~ Chinua Achebe
Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.
~ Alejandro Castro Espin
This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.
~ Chinua Achebe
There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.
~ Eric Hoffer
I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.
~ Nico Tortorella
An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.
~ George W. Bush
As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.
~ Allen W. Wood
Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.
~ Hugh Bonneville