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Quotes About Equality

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
~ Emma Goldman
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
~ Johnny Carson
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
~ Althea Gibson
I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.
~ Mike Huckabee
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.
~ Agnes Varda
At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
~ Richard Rorty
I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
~ Ai Weiwei
People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
~ Patrice O'Neal
Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
~ Albert Einstein
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
~ Michael Sandel
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
~ Albert Schweitzer
What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.
~ Barbara Gittings
If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.
~ Immanuel Kant
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.
~ Robert H. Jackson
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
~ Rick Moody
Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.
~ Condoleezza Rice
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
~ Henry Beston
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
~ Salman Rushdie
I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.
~ Bernie Sanders