Quotes about Equality

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

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.