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Quotes About Equality

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.
~ Rajiv Gandhi
The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
~ Nelson Mandela
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
~ Jean Vanier
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest
~ Thabo Mbeki
If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
~ Dorothy Fields
Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.
~ Anna Julia Cooper
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
~ Olof Palme
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest
~ Zygmunt Bauman
We all have a responsibility to create a just society
~ Bryan Stevenson
A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.
~ Cornel West
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
~ Bobby Seale
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
~ Norman Borlaug
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.
~ Malcolm X
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
~ Victoria Claflin Woodhull
There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.
~ Robert M. Hensel
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
~ Adrienne Rich
In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
~ John Major
We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task.
~ Angela Merkel
I want a society free of human trafficking
~ Anuradha Koirala
Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden
~ R. A. Salvatore