Quotes about Equality
The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
— Nelson Mandela
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.
— Ralph Abernathy
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!
— Pope Francis
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
— James H. Cone
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The great dream of Judaism is not to raise priests, but a people of priests; to consecrate all men, not only some men.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
That equality is a good thing, a fine goal, may be generally accepted. What is lacking is a sense of the monstrosity of inequality .
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Above all it never ceases to proclaim that worship of God without justice to man is an abomination; that while man's problem is God, God's problem is man.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln