Quotes about Equality

God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27

My grandmother had a motto that you should never look down on people unless you are helping them up, and I think that's a very spiritual way of living.

I look like what we have taught society a lesbian looks like. I just do. I have the short hair. I got the muscles.

In short, between men and women you want... Equality. Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures. I said equality. I didn't say identity.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Where women are honored, the divinities are pleased. Where they are despised, it is useless to pray to God.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)

Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there converted into evil.

The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.

The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.