Quotes about Equality
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
- Mother Teresa
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
- Maya Angelou
As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
- Kerry Washington
To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
- Desmond Tutu
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
- Elie Wiesel
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
- Mark Twain
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.
- St. Basil
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
- Ayn Rand
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.
- Mahatma Gandhi
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower