Quotes about Equality
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
— GK Chesterton
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
— Herman Melville
Treat people with dignity and respect.
— Michelle Obama
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.
— Pope Francis
Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!
— Pope Francis
The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
— Barack Obama
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
— CS Lewis
The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.
— Pramila Jayapal
I would assume my father would support anything that lifted up and created opportunities for 'the least of these.'
— Martin Luther King III