Quotes about Equality
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.
— Albert Einstein
everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else...
— Aldous Huxley
For I am you and you are I.
— Aldous Huxley
Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
— Alexander Hamilton
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
— Dorothy Day
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
— Dorothy Day
The true atheist is the one who denies God's image in the "least of these.
— Dorothy Day
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
— Dorothy Sayers
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
— Dorothy Sayers
No one is free until all of us are free.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.
— Dr. Seuss