Quotes about Equality
It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
— Adrian Rogers
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
— Ronald Reagan
Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.
— Gloria Steinem
I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
— George Bernard Shaw
God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.
— Gloria Steinem