Quotes about Equality
I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.
— Gloria Steinem
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
— Malcolm X
I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
— Shirley Chisholm
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.
— Sonia Sotomayor
There is no scriptural basis for segregation.
— Billy Graham
Women need men to be strong, just as Christ is strong for men.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
If we all give our power to one person, that's what the world will be. If we all decide to make the world a beautiful place, it'll be a beautiful place.
— Kamasi Washington
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
— AA Milne
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Finally Modernism, which denies and abolishes every difference, cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under the ban of uniformity.
— Abraham Kuyper