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Quotes about Equality

How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God alone judges, and God's judgment is helpful and healing. After all, we can only serve other Christians; we can never place ourselves above them.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If God loved the world, the whole fallen creation, then he gave us no preference over others. He loved my worst enemy no less than he loved me. Jesus Christ died for his and our enemies.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in his image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The universality of the church was illustrated in a marvelously effective manner. White, black, yellow members of religious orders orders—everyone was in clerical robes united under the church. It truly seems ideal.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The hungry person needs bread, the homeless person needs shelter, the one deprived of rights needs justice, the lonely person needs community, the undisciplined one needs order, and the slave needs freedom. Treating human beings as things, commodities, and machines is a special hindrance to receiving Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Everyone, no matter her or his stage in life, has the right to feel beautiful.
— Dita Von Teese
Female singers should just be sprinkled into airplay now and again as garnish. "'The tomatoes of our salad are the females,'" Ruthanna said. "That was his exact quote. And that's why they call it Tomato-gate.
— Dolly Parton
But I had to work ten times as hard to get half the attention.
— Dolly Parton