1,457 Quotes About Equality

We may be different regards to our race, class, gender, religion , ability, citizenship status, personality and intelligence but we are the same creature as human beings. This gives us the oppurtunity to learn from each others' differences by treating each other with equal dignity and respect so we can maintain a civil society.

He carries home in the way he walks: an elegant, loose strut. He wears home on his skin in the form of attar, a delicious perfume that makes me dream of Somali coastlines, places where children play football amidst colonial ruins, and young men like Korfa flee in darkness on boats to Yemen and Kenya, determined never to look back.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

The fight for greater equality is not a zero sum game; demonizing all members one group to the advantage of another is not progress but oppression.

But in every way, the shared metaphors we use of female access to power - 'knocking on the door', 'storming the citadel', 'smashing the glass ceiling', or just giving them a 'leg up' - underline female exteriority. Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.

She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.

When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.

Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.