Quotes about Equality
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
— Mahatma Gandhi
And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.
— Malik Yoba
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
— George Eliot
When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
— Sonia Sotomayor
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are.
— John F. Kennedy
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
— Billie Jean King
Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations
— Nelson Mandela
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
— Billie Jean King