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Quotes About Equality

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
~ Samuel Gompers
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.
~ Carlos P. Romulo
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
~ Ernest Gaines
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
~ Clarence Thomas
Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.
~ Dominique Pire
What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.
~ Yolanda King
If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.
~ A. J. P. Taylor
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.
~ Gerard K. O'Neill
Respect other people regardless of the level they are at... or the level you are at. When you hand out respect, you get it back.
~ Erik Estrada
Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.
~ Ricardo Montalban
Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.
~ Bertrand Russell
A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
~ Carly Fiorina
A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours
~ Andrei Sakharov
There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.
~ Irene Khan
The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.
~ Teresa Mummert
Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect
~ Joan Dunayer
Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!
~ Dizzy Gillespie
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
~ James A. Baldwin
I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.
~ James Stewart
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
~ Jane Addams
If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn't respect that.
~ Bo Burnham