Quotes about Equality
An immoral and unjust legal system would breed contempt for its laws and regulations.
— Nelson Mandela
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
— Nelson Mandela
Let freedom reign.
— Nelson Mandela
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation.
— Nelson Mandela
His life is circumscribed by racist laws and regulations that cripple his growth, dim his potential, and stunt his life.
— Nelson Mandela
The struggle is my life.
— Nelson Mandela
Een mens die een ander mens van zijn vrijheid berooft, is een gevangene van de haat, opgesloten achter de tralies van vooroordelen en kleingeestigheid.
— Nelson Mandela
It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.
— Nelson Mandela
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
— Nelson Mandela
What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?
— Nelson Mandela
the Moral Law is not always the standard by which we treat others, but it is nearly always the standard by which we expect others to treat us.
— Norman Geisler
But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? Does a thistle have no right to life, or a Mouse that eats the green in a warehouse? What about Bees and Drones, weeds and roses? Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse?
— Olga Tokarczuk