Quotes about Equality

Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,No more modest than immodest.Unscrew the locks from the doors!Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God.

Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

There will be no peace without a lowering of consumerism to match the banishment of arms. For the arms serve primarily either to usurp what belongs to others or to guarantee an arrangement already inequitable. The arms cannot be given up without abandoning swollen appetites as well.

Hans Walter Wolff has suggested that the Sabbath is the great equalizer, for that day is a foretaste of the kingdom when all-great and small-are reckoned to be exactly equal .2' All-masters and slaves-are to engage in this most godlike activity of being at peace.

Nobody is profane or unclean. Nobody can be discounted. Nobody is second-class. Nobody is subject to dismissal. Nobody should be cheap labor. Nobody should suffer systems of violence. Old living is contradicted by the truth of the Spirit. The superstition of superiority is broken. The old distinction of chosenness is placed in question.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved until the human rights of the other are recognized and guaranteed.

we will not have a politics of justice and compassion unless we have a religion of God's freedom.

Faith is both the conviction that justice can be accomplished and the refusal to accept injustice.

Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.