Quotes about Equality

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Violence is the language of the unheard.

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.

It is important that you're out, and it is important that you're visible.

It's so easy to see people as less than they are, as less than people.

If I want to be loved as I am, I have to be willing to love others as they are.