Quotes about Equality

And whenever people claim that one group is in, saved, accepted by God, forgiven, enlightened, redeemed- and everybody else isn't- why is it that those who make this claim are almost always part of the group that's in?

Paul's insistence here is that what God is doing in Christ is for everybody, every nation, every ethnic group, every tribe. Paul uses the expansive word "Gentiles"—a first-century way of saying "everybody else.

The workers all get paid the same because you can't divide the infinite

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

If the ethical - that is, social morality - is the highest and if there is in a person no residual incommensurability in some way such that this incommensurability is not evil then no categories are needed other than what Greek philosophy had... and what their wisdom amounts to is the beautiful proposition that basically everything is the same.

True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.