Quotes about Equality
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
— Ronald Reagan
Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.
— Gloria Steinem
I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
— George Bernard Shaw
God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.
— Gloria Steinem
He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.
— John Owen
I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.
— Carl Sagan
I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.
— Sheryl Sandberg
My casting in 'Halo' produced by Steven Spielberg, which I am doing, is just color-blind casting; Asians have been questioning why best roles should not come to them and I am so happy about this color-blind casting. I am going to be just what I am in that film.
— Shabana Azmi