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Quotes About Equality

We cannot uphold the rule of law only when it is consistent with our beliefs. We must uphold it even when it protects behavior that we don't like or is unattractive or is not admirable or that might even be hurtful.
~ Cheryl Mills
We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks.
~ Frances Hesselbein
We want Black and White to be treated equally in this country, but we cannot heal this country, we can't save race relations, we can't accomplish equality, we can't serve justice, off of lies.
~ Will Cain
Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.
~ Stokely Carmichael
We cannot let it be said of modern Australia that the colour of your skin determines whether or not you end up in jail.
~ Bill Shorten
Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
~ Alain Rene Le Sage
Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways.
~ Al Sharpton
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
~ Jeannette Rankin
We cannot afford to be color-blind, we have to be color-brave.
~ Mellody Hobson
We cannot denounce white supremacy and allow its endorsers to continue serving in our government.
~ Cori Bush
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
~ Dorothy Height
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
~ Bernice King
Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
~ H. Rap Brown
For the American economy, for any economy to grow, to truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half our population. We have to socialize our girls to be comfortable with imperfection, and we've got to do it now. We cannot wait for them to learn how to be brave like I did when I was 33 years old.
~ Reshma Saujani
We cannot fight just as Dalits. I understand for centuries people have fought each other. It is not easy to bring them together. But we have done this in U.P.
~ Mayawati
We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.
~ Trent Lott
I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.
~ Lynn Schusterman
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.
~ Slobodan Milosevic
We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.
~ Gwen Moore
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
~ P. Chidambaram
In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Just because one brother is good and one brother is bad in the same family, we cannot say that the rest of the family is bad or good.
~ Sri Chinmoy
As we celebrate the considerable progress we've made toward full equality in our military, we cannot forget about those who continue to suffer because of the discriminatory policies of our past.
~ Mark Pocan
We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.
~ Elizabeth Warren