Quotes About Equality

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.

Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

You can only be free if I am free.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.