Quotes About Equality

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.

What people in Burma need is a democratic federal Burma that guarantees autonomy, rights and protection for all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or race.

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.

I'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights.

I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.

Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them.

Money has no religion except itself.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

Disregarding the value of religion and believing in egalitarianism are two misconceptions that cause America much trouble today.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.