Quotes About Equality

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.

In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

The right to life is the first among human rights.

Be equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value.

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.