Quotes About Equality

They believe that all beings, regardless of species or gender, are created equal. Surely you can understand that." It was more a statement than a question, but Des answered anyway. "But all beings aren't really equal, are they? I mean, some are smarter, or stronger Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or better at cards.

Des shrugged. He didn't believe much in equality. Working to make everybody equal didn't leave much chance for anyone to achieve greatness.

a man, who like Satan, momentarily thought himself the equal of God and who, with all the humility of a Christian, came to realize in God's hands alone reside supreme power and infinite wisdom.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

nothing" the unjust man complained "is just" ("or un-" the just rejoined.

Favor everything without exception that makes people different: discourage everything whatsoever that makes people alike. The Rest follows

the cult of Same is all the chic; by instruments, both span and spic, are justly measured Spic and Span:

And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and provide philosophical models for the betterment of mankind?

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does. He thought. Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

next time you say, «I have nothing in common with this person,» remember that you have a great deal in common: A few years from now - two years or seventy years, it doesn't make much difference - both of you will have become rotting corpses, then piles of dust, then nothing at all. This is a sobering and humbling realization that leaves little room for pride. [... ] In that sense , there is total equality between you and every other creature.

Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

making yourself right and others wrong is one of the principal ego mind patterns, one of the main forms of unconsciousness.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization

He explained to them that he still lacked the sameness of bearing before all human beings, whether beggar or king. He was still unable to look through social roles and conceptual identities and see the sameness of being in every human.

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

see the sameness of being in every human.

I've just come to the conclusion that all women should wear whatever they want to wear and that all men should wear whatever they want to wear. If they have a problem with that, they should take it up with United Nations.

The twenty-first century is a key century for us on this planet. Either we make a world, where all seven billion people have a fair chance in this century - or forget it. If we can't do this, I don't think we are going to make it as a species. Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair. Hatred and separation and building walls is not the way to progress. Going backward is not the way to go forward.

If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to stand there and say, 'I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.

If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, "I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.

It doesn't matter what sex or sexuality, how you identify or who you fancy - it matters not one whit. What do you do in life? What do you create? What do you add to the human existence - that is what matters.