Quotes about Equality
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
— Maya Angelou
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
— Cicero
God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.
— Nelson Mandela
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
You cant have justice unless you have truth.
— Hill Harper
I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
...oppression is as American as apple pie...
— Audre Lorde
our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
— Michael Ignatieff
Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.
— Tony Evans
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
— James A. Garfield
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.
— Billy Graham