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Quotes About Equality

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.
~ Saina Nehwal
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.
~ John Rawls
I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
~ David Adjaye
That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.
~ Mandawuy Yunupingu
When you consider the overpopulation in this world ... homosexuality is completely underrated in this society.
~ Doug Stanhope
Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
~ Shulamith Firestone
You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.
~ Fisher Stevens
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
~ Aristotle
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
~ Desmond Tutu
If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
~ Cyndi Lauper
No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
~ Ai Weiwei
I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.
~ Anuradha Koirala
Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.
~ Gerda Lerner
Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.
~ Eartha Kitt
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.
~ Learned Hand
I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.
~ Hilary Swank
Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.
~ Justin Trudeau
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
~ Bella Abzug
We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.
~ Kjell Magne Bondevik
De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
~ Zosia Mamet