“We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.”
Equality sounds simple until you try to define it. These quotes wrestle with justice, fairness, civil rights, and the gap between how things are and how they should be. They come from activists, leaders, philosophers, and people who refused to accept the status quo.
“To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.”
“We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.”
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
“Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.”
“The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.”
“Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.”
“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
“The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.”
“I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.”
“It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.”
“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.”
“Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.”
“Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.”
“I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.”
“More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.”
“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”