Quotes about Equality

If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

I think humanity at least has a shared understanding of what justice means.

Unlike some people, my father would try to meet with President-elect Trump because he recognizes that in order to move the agenda of justice, freedom, and equality forward, you can't just protest and resist. You also have to negotiate as well.

Laverne Cox, Isis King, Janet Mock, Our Lady J, Ryan Murphy, Steven Canals, the people I've met growing up, and even me - all have inspired me to see that it is possible to get far anywhere and that the capacity for positive and motivating influence is truly unlimited.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave.

And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.