Quotes about Equality
Biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.
— Moby
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
— Victor Hugo
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
— Jimmy Carter
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
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