Quotes about Equality

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

I want for every child - regardless of their background, gender, caste, etc. - to be able to access schools that are safe and supportive so that they can learn and thrive.

Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

You have to be an anti-racist to not be racist. Because it's just a cultural tide that will pull you into it if you're not swimming against it.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well.

Truly blessed are those whose hearts know the peace of God; otherwise, the poor and the rich, the beggar and the king are all alike.

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

The privileges of a few do not make common law.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.