Quotes about Equality

The lesson in all this is that to pit women against men is a form of denigration of women, as though their measure must be determined by masculine standards.

The Gospel of Christ was the most powerful sociological leveler in history.

He and his allies declared that every human being was equal in God's sight and made in the image of God, and must therefore be treated with equal dignity.

We who are sometimes obsessed with social conscience can no longer imagine a world without it, or a society that regards the suffering of the poor and others as the "will of God.

The suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners.

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

America has an obligation to secure its borders, but it is wrong to pass laws that treat human beings as something less than human. If my father were alive, he would be in the forefront of the struggle for a fair and humane reform of our immigration laws.

The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.