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Quotes About Equality

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
~ Herman Melville
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin
~ Barry McGuire
Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
~ Olympia Snowe
And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of government and our state governments.
~ Chuck Grassley
Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.
~ Ellery Sedgwick
I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.
~ Mohammed Dib
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
~ Cesar Chavez
Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
~ Winifred Holtby
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.
~ Cesar Chavez
Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.
~ Desmond Tutu
What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.
~ David Norwood
Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump.
~ Donald Trump
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood
~ Shunryu Suzuki
The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Pain doesn't respect age, my lady.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.
~ Malcolm X
All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.
~ Anthony Douglas