Quotes about Equality

spent much of the next two years cowriting and editing her biography.  Emerson was a signatory of the "Declaration of Sentiments" of the first Women's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. And in 1855, he attended and addressed the convention in Boston.

Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same.

We have the same interest in condition and character. We honor the rich, because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.

In diminishing the other we devalue ourselves. Respect and dignity are an intrinsic part of valued relationships.

Marcello Pera, the atheist philosopher and former Italian politician, has argued powerfully that Western love of liberty, equality, and brotherhood simply wouldn't exist without the Christian message.4

You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly.'They hate Jews.' 'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger. 'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody.

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God's eyes they do.

We are not jealous of what anyone else has if we have the same thing. Fear comes when we are afraid we will be left out or have to do without what we want.

Single women should not be made to feel they are missing something because they are not married. Married women should not be made to feel they must have a career to be complete.