Quotes about Equality
To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
- Gloria Steinem
Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.
- Thomas Merton
We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
- Muhammad Ali
No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
- Peter Drucker
It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.
- Thomas Paine
God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.
- Timothy Keller
Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.
- Michelle Obama
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
- Malala Yousafzai
Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.
- Pope John Paul II
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel