Quotes about Equality
When you are the majority ethnicity, nothing you do is ethnic. It's just the way it's done. When you are a minority, everything you do has color.
— John Piper
Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.
— John Piper
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
— John Quincy Adams
So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.
— John Quincy Adams
Do not despise or run down any preacher; do not exalt any one above the rest, lest you hurt both him and the cause of God.
— John Wesley
It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.
— Ellen White
And only as we love God supremely is it possible to love our neighbor impartially.
— Ellen White
Brotherly Love Christ recognized no distinction of nationality or rank or creed. The scribes and Pharisees desired to make a local and a national benefit of the gifts of heaven and to exclude the rest of God's family in the world. But Christ came to break down every wall of partition. He came to show that His gift of mercy and love is as unconfined as the air, the light, or the showers of rain that refresh the earth.
— Ellen White
So far as birth and religious instruction were concerned, these brothers were equal. Both were sinners, and both acknowledged the claims of God to reverence and worship. To outward appearance their religion was the same up to a certain point, but beyond this the difference between the two was great.
— Ellen White
You should never take more than you give.
— Elton John
Only take as much as you give, in the circle of life.
— Elton John
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
— Emily Bronte