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Quotes About Equality

Whoever despises another human being will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing of what we despise in another is itself foreign to us.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The gospel belongs to all people because it belongs to sinners.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God alone judges, and God's judgment is helpful and healing. After all, we can only serve other Christians; we can never place ourselves above them.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If God loved the world, the whole fallen creation, then he gave us no preference over others. He loved my worst enemy no less than he loved me. Jesus Christ died for his and our enemies.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in his image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The universality of the church was illustrated in a marvelously effective manner. White, black, yellow members of religious orders orders—everyone was in clerical robes united under the church. It truly seems ideal.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The hungry person needs bread, the homeless person needs shelter, the one deprived of rights needs justice, the lonely person needs community, the undisciplined one needs order, and the slave needs freedom" (p. 97). Treating human beings as things, commodities, and machines is a special hindrance to receiving Christ
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
~ Diogenes the Cynic
Nymphomania is a word men invented for women stupid enough to act like men.
~ Dirk Wittenborn
Everyone, no matter her or his stage in life, has the right to feel beautiful.
~ Dita Von Teese
I know how easy it is to sound like a corny version of Noam Chomsky when talking about something like this, but in a country where millions of dollars are spent on nuclear weapons, corporate welfare, and many ridiculous things, doesn't it just make sense to take care of people first? As soon as we can make the South Bronx, Compton, Taos, and Astoria look like Beverly Hills I'll have no problem watching a guy orbit Mars.
~ Dito Montiel
From the late Dixie Lee McKeone. "TSR made me started writing under Lee McKeone, insisting their mostly male readers wouldn't want to read something written by a woman. I proved them wrong and insisted on using my entire name rather than just my middle name." (I'm one of her apprentices and that's what she told me.)
~ Dixie Lee McKeone
Prejudice is subjectiveness's sister.
~ Dmitry Semenykhin
We Can't go into uncharted territories with a women
~ Doctor Reed
Equal distribution of wealth does not mean we all should be millionaires — it only means no one should die of hunger.
~ Dodinsky
You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.
~ Dolly Parton
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
~ Dolly Parton
Female singers should just be sprinkled into airplay now and again as garnish. "'The tomatoes of our salad are the females,'" Ruthanna said. "That was his exact quote. And that's why they call it Tomato-gate.
~ Dolly Parton
Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.
~ Dom Helder Camara