Quotes about Equality
No one set of interests can safely be suffered to dominate the country.
- Woodrow Wilson
The sun stands out not because it merely shines, but because it shines on everyone.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to know a person's true character, observe how he treats those who don't matter.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
- Frederick Douglass
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere
- Frederick Douglass
Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.
- St. John Chrysostom
No human being is illegal.
- Elie Wiesel
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
- Elie Wiesel
Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free.
- Elie Wiesel
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I don't want anybody treating me as a "person" rather than as a woman. Our sexual differences are the terms of our life, and to obscure them in any way is to weaken the very fabric of life itself. When they are lost, we are lost.
- Elisabeth Elliot