Equality Quotes - Page 6

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.