Quotes about Equality

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.

When our mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters are considered both different and inferior in the eyes of the God we worship, this belief tends to permeate society and everyone suffers.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

God loved Hagar as much as He loved Abraham!

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.